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> If he had the game to do over again with today’s technology, Mr. Rotberg said, he would change it even more: instead of a monochrome display, a color vector display could be used, and newer microprocessors and cheaper memory could add realism and complexity.

Considering this article was published in 2022, this design mindset just feels...well, twenty years outdated (alongside N64 discontinuation circa 2002)?

Hadn't even thought about until now, but the initial distribution pivot from carts to optical media must have really changed how the proverbial game was played on both development and business fronts.

EDIT: Just noticed that the article was originally published in 1982...missed that context cue.

> This article was first published as "Battlezone: war in 3-D." It appeared in the December 1982 issue of IEEE Spectrum as part of a special report, “Video games: The electronic big bang.”