On: Over-Extended Metaphor for the day

[gaius]

The did the whole game in hardware. You are thinking of a computer in the modern sense, memory, processor, software. It wasn't always thus.

[Aqueous → gaius]

I see - I didn't realize Pong was implemented entirely in hardware.

Chronologically, at least, Intel's first commercial processor was in 1970 but Pong was released in 1972.