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2014 interview with the creator: https://spacing.ca/toronto/2014/08/13/meet-bertie-brain-worlds-first-arcade-game-built-toronto/ https://spacing.ca/toronto/2014

• whycome 11mo ago
  > “If the solid-state revolution had started ten years later, I would have been a billionaire,” he says. “Everybody would have used Additrons instead of these big circuits.” I feel like this is the sentiment on HN for so many startup projects that seem adjacent to other innovations
  • imchillyb 11mo ago
    It’s also blame shifting. Had these folks been more aware of trends and their own industry, the prospects of billionairhood could have been non zero. Instead, Additrons and similarly outdated modes of operation kept pushing technologies that were rapidly becoming the past and irrelevant.