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That would be closing the circle. Back in the 1970's some video games were more or less purely implemented in hardware (e.g. I believe Pong was originally imple
by mbitsnbites 3y ago
That would be closing the circle. Back in the 1970's some video games were more or less purely implemented in hardware (e.g. I believe Pong was originally implemented with discrete TTL chips, and a later hone version was implemented in a single VLSI chip).
- simne 3y agoYou are very close to truth. Before, many games implemented using chips, but not all chips was logic, some things was analog. Even in consoles/arcades, loong later appear some hybrid things. For example, I hear about one arcade which was based on z80, but have analog sprite scale unit. I think, nearly completely digital world become only after appeared Nvidia TNT, which was cheap enough and produced in huge numbers. But to be honest, I don't have enough info about hardware used in Nokia NGage and other portables, so I could assume, even later hardware could have analog parts.
- xcv123 3y agoThat's right. All of the early arcade games used TTL discrete logic. The first arcade game implemented with a microprocessor was released in 1975 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Fight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Fight