In 2019 researchers at Berlin’s Laptop Video games Museum made a unprecedented discovery: a rudimentary Pong console, created from salvaged electronics and plastic soap-box enclosures for joysticks. The beige rectangular tupperware that contained its wires would, when linked to a TV by the aerial, deliver a serviceable Pong copy to the display screen.
On the time, they thought the home-brewed machine was a singular instance of ingenuity behind the iron curtain. However earlier this 12 months they discovered one other Seifendosen-Pong (“soap-box Pong”), together with a duplicate of a state-produced journal known as FunkAmateur containing schematics for a DIY number of Atari’s Nineteen Seventies gaming sensation.
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