Yep. I've been looking at an old arcade board's design for fun lately, and it's a lot of giant (for today's standards) DIP chips that are just flip-flops, and g

Yep. I've been looking at an old arcade board's design for fun lately, and it's a lot of giant (for today's standards) DIP chips that are just flip-flops, and gates, or gates, which modern cheap FPGAs have by the tens or hundreds of thousands in them.