| [Racing the Beam: How Atari 2600’s Crazy Hardware Changed Game Design |
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Life from Wired.com](http://blog.wired.com/games/2009/03/racing-the-beam.html). I remember also the goofy Apple ][ graphics. Yet both systems had tons of great games – these tight and arbitrary resource limits pushed programmers to become really inventive. A good lesson in many walks of life. |
