I felt like this game was easily comparable to a semester of computer engineering foundation, but more fun, especially with the assembly minigames. In college

I felt like this game was easily comparable to a semester of computer engineering foundation, but more fun, especially with the assembly minigames. In college I remember assignments to design specific instructions for a hypothetical CPU, and separately to design specific circuits, but it was never a complete or functional design. TC was fun because you make up your own ISA while building a complete miniature CPU, and you can take it as far as you want.