VIDEO: Atari 2600 Nostalgia: Racing the Beam

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Constraints drive creativity. Atari’s CX2600 console managed years of very playable games despite its limitations. The programmer’s skill at “racing the beam” — precisely timing CPU instructions to the unyielding raster scan — was key to squeezing “impossible” graphics from it.

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