Yes, you read that right. In a world of cloud streaming and teraflops, a gamer from New York is striving to release their own 8-bit home console with its own gaming infrastructure. Meet the GameTank, its simple controller, and its chunky cartridges that are looking to bring 8-bit gaming back

Yes, you read that right. In a world of cloud streaming and teraflops, a gamer from New York is striving to release their own 8-bit home console with its own gaming infrastructure. Meet the GameTank, its simple controller, and its chunky cartridges that are looking to bring 8-bit gaming back

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    17 hours ago

    Basically, a nice idea. BUT:

    What a graveyard of 74xx chips. Maybe just using a FPGA would have been a smarter solution?

    RCA video jack? What year is it? Yes, it’s a retro design, but it still has to interface with something in this world. And display devices that still use RCA video are not exactly common.