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“This is a simulation of the 1972 Atari game Pong at a circuit level.”

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The 1972 Pong had no software at all. It was logic chips and a few 555 timers wired together. This page simulates the whole circuit in the browser, gate by gate, fast enough to play. Fifty years later we need a gigabyte of JavaScript to draw a button.