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Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

It works but my polish PAL tv doesn't seem to like it very much, it took a lot of tuning to get this wonderful image.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Mmm... realistic

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Colour is also not very accurate... unless they mean a single colour, green.

[–] Redkey 6 points 3 weeks ago

They probably did. It's not exactly honest, but the system is technically outputting a colour signal, and it was released at a time when that wasn't a given. They didn't say "full colour" anywhere on the box, did they?

Let's call it a mix of lower expectations for the time, and a bit of marketing deception.

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