Old news but not yet mentioned here: new 2600 game discovery

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RyaNtheSlayA wrote: What is this book about?
about the early days of Atari and how those games were all designed in short periods of time using very limited hardware. It's kind of all the "tricks" they used in each game -- but I guess it's presented very non-computer nerdy.
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Re: Old news but not yet mentioned here: new 2600 game disco

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noiseredux wrote:
RyaNtheSlayA wrote: What is this book about?
about the early days of Atari and how those games were all designed in short periods of time using very limited hardware. It's kind of all the "tricks" they used in each game -- but I guess it's presented very non-computer nerdy.
Sounds interesting. It would make good reading material to go with the stack of Atari games I just bought. :mrgreen:
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