Comment on Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£

TimeNaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Might need recapping, think vblank and blank are drifting.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mmm… realistic

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  • TimeNaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Colour is also not very accurate… unless they mean a single color, green.

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    • Redkey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They probably did. It’s not exactly honest, but the system is technically outputting a colour signal, and it was released at a time when that wasn’t a given. They didn’t say “full colour” anywhere on the box, did they?

      Let’s call it a mix of lower expectations for the time, and a bit of marketing deception.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Was it meant to run on an NTSC TV?

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Unlikely. It is spelled “Colour” on the box, implying this would be for the UK market.

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  • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No, Radofin was a UK-only brand.

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  • Redkey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Found in an Edinburgh charity shop, so while it’s not impossible, it’s unlikely.

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