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I love how every cartridge box has this note from when lots of people still had B&W sets - "Game play in color only on color television sets". Derrrrrrrrr!
You can really tell how expensive memory was back then, the prompts in the game consist of things like "M?" "G?" "T?" "S?" They couldn't afford to squander enough bits to even spell out whole words. And the blackjack game I have displayed? When you run out of chips, the thing just continues dealing two cards to the dealer forever, why waste memory on code to end the game gracefully? : )
I love ancient technology like this just like old TVs. I even gave my nephews all the old systems when they were growing up - Intellivision, 2600, Nintendo etc. - so they also appreciate how far this stuff has come over the years. Now I'm gonna show them this baby!
I like the Blackjack and Sonar Hunt carts the best. Fortunately none of the games suffer any from the rounded corners of the round screen, they seem to have limited the used game area to a rectangle that fits pretty much within it (probably to save bits!)
I still remember drooling over this system in the local Sears store when I was about 16, they had one hooked up to a tv. Hey, this WAS the Xbox 360 in THOSE days!
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