On Sun, 26 May 2013 13:04:50 -0700 Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/26/2013 12:56 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > On Sun, 26 May 2013 11:51:24 -0700 > > Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> (Don't dismiss this out of hand - I've seen this sort of thing done > >> before. Back when I was programming hand-held LED games for Mattel > >> (remember those?) > >> > > > > You worked on those? That's really cool, my friends and I used to > > love those things (Or, actually, come to think of it, at that point > > they were all LCD, not LED - roughly late 80's IIRC). Most of the > > ones I had were "Tiger" brand though - was that part of Mattel or a > > competitor? > > > > Yeah, I did the 'Soccer' one. For minimum wage! It was in 1978 or so. > The display was a grid of red LEDs. Cool. I did a couple of indie/budget games back in late high school, early college (roughly 1998-2002) for royalties that probably ended up working out to much less than minimum wage. But it still beat the hell out of McDonald's! ;)
