What makes BLIP tick?
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Uploaded by oskay on Feb 10, 2010
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/go/blip
Test driving-- and taking apart -- the Mechanical PONG clone from 1977
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nice graphics it has
2 years ago 7
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Wow.Never heard of this game. Looks interesting and so do the inside's.. Luv taking apart stuff.. :-))
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So neat to see the inside. I've had a BLiP since I was a kid. Mine still works!
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Hightech in the Seventies... very interesting insight.
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Wow
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Frustrating
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When I used to teach after school care a couple of years ago, I used to bring this in, and my class loved it. It is pretty challenging, and we used to have tournaments. Who says today's kids don't like old school toys?
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hm... i wondering if thats a mecanical game instead of a digital game...
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Insanity.
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A friend had one of these back then, we played the heck out of it. It's funny watching you get frustrated with it now, with expectations based on 30+ years of real digital stuff.
The trick is that the ball breaks one way or another about one third of the way from the halfway line to the point where it stops. You have to watch and be quick with your fingertips.
Being math geeks, we also checked how random it was by recording several hundred samples of where it went. It was =very= random.
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My brother had one of these when we were kids in the 70s. Good times!
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where did u get it
michael123425 2 years ago
>where did u get it
eBay. There are lots of them around, so they're not expensive, and it's an amazing piece of engineering. :)
oskay 2 years ago 2
It feels odd to me watching somebody probably in their 20's pop open a child's toy from the late 70's and go "Wow, look at this bizarro mechanism!"
The background track and general "intensity" of this is all wrong. Unless you were being ironic, in which case you didn't go far enough.
megaz0id 2 years ago
Pardon me, but screw you.
oskay 2 years ago 24