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Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ (lemmy.world)
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[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago

Many 80s games have an amusing hybrid design. Galaga has its game code and sprites in ROM, but has an entire custom chip that is a dedicated circuit for generating the ship explosion sound, another custom chip that only makes the scrolling starfield, etc.