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i had a binatone pong game that sounds like it was based on this chip. It had a bunch of variants of pong you could play based on moving a couple of physical sl
by dannyobrien 4y ago
i had a binatone pong game that sounds like it was based on this chip. It had a bunch of variants of pong you could play based on moving a couple of physical sliders -- squash (bounced off a wall), football (two bars per player), etc.
The crazy thing was that if you turned the sliders just right, you could also play "off menu" games which had combinations of the attributes of the official ganes. I guess this was down to some of the tricks described here. It certainly confused me a lot when I learnt to program: you can't just compose two games together by half-clicking on an option!
- TedDoesntTalk 4y ago> you could also play "off menu" games This is called “circuit bending” now and has quite a following. I did it with the Atari VCS (now called 2600) quite a bit. The Spider-Man cartridge had some great weird incarnations by moving power switch half-way, as did a few other carts.