Recreating Pong in its original, hardware form

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Recreating Pong in its original, hardware form

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http://imgur.com/a/TUGto#0

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I want to see just how small they could make a hardware only version of that using SMD parts.

Still I didn't know that that game was original all logic and no processing. So I bet you could tweak a few capacitors and resistors and make the game faster/slower.
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amazing!
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