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Think vector arcade games grew out of oscilloscopes where some smart tinkerers found they could use the oscilloscope as a display screen for rudimentary games.
by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
Think vector arcade games grew out of oscilloscopes where some smart tinkerers found they could use the oscilloscope as a display screen for rudimentary games.
- ChickeNES 9y agoYup, one of the first true video games, Tennis for Two (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two) used a scope as a display
- dylan604 9y agoAfter recent threads here about oscilloscope music, I was wondering if this game style was essentially an XY view type of concept. Also, I know that the ROM emulators had issues getting games to work on nonCRT screens as the games had to do some interesting programming "tricks" to deal with the quirks of NTSC. I wonder if the vector game emulation teams had any additional issues to deal with to get the game to work on nonCRT displays?