Fnord wrote:
Pong, on my first home-made console. The program was hard-wired using TTL chips.
Does anyone else remember the 7400 series? Fairchild, NatSemi, and TI produced bazillions of those little 14-pin and 16-pin packages, and every hobbyist worth his flux had bins full of them!
(raises hand)
Karnaugh maps!
ob-firstgame: Star Trek, on a teletype terminal at the Lawrence Hall of Science. Although I also remember playing a table-top console...some sort of vector graphics game, like two 'asteroids' ship triangles chasing & shooting each other around a central island. No idea of the year on that memory...but it inspired me to make a twisting tunnel driving vector (-ish? I don't recall the PET having any but block chars) game on Commodore PET or similar with a homemade mercury tilt-switch "joystick" when I was maybe 13-14.
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