[solidangle]

TIS-100 brought back some of the same joy that I had when I began with programming many years ago. Since then programming has become boring for me, but the weird limitations of TIS-100 almost made it feel like I was starting fresh again. I loved learning tons of small tricks that I could apply to beat the harder levels.

Shenzhen I/O otoh felt like work.

[kllrnohj]

Exapunks was my favorite of the three. If you liked TIS-100 I'd highly recommend trying out Exapunks.

[FredPret]

Shenzen has that card game though, so you can slack off at work

[RF_Savage]

Yeah. Why fire up Shenzhen I/O when you can instead dive into a design around some neat, but poorly documented chip from China in kicad.

Or jyst some interestimg hardware project in general.

[jameshart]

In Shenzhen I/O, at least you know going in that every task is actually solvable.

And getting it wrong won’t set fire to anything. Or get your LAN hacked.