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cm0002@lemmy.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 month ago

Behind The Bally Home Computer System

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Behind The Bally Home Computer System

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cm0002@lemmy.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 month ago
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Although we might all fundamentally recognize that gaming consoles are just specialized computers, we generally treat them, culturally and physically, differently than we do desktops or laptops. Bu…
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    Bally, like the pinball table company? They had a computer? :O

    I wonder how well it could simulate pinball… 🤔

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      All things considered, pretty well!

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    I found out about this system when I was looking up my hometown in alternative search engines. It looked like there was a scene for it.

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    Wow, that was way more impressive than I expected. Nice job, Bally people!

    I can’t believe he didn’t know Wizard of Wor though.

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