Gaming News This video game enthusiast takes on a completely crazy challenge: he 3D prints a priceless machine
To revive the oldest mass-marketed video game in history, he has crossed the line
Head in the stars
He decided to take on a somewhat crazy challenge: creating a 1:1 scale replica of the 1971 Computer Space arcade machine! You will certainly ask us: “But what’s so incredible about this marker, besides the fact that it appears to be very old?“. It’s easy : Computer Space is known for being the first mass-marketed video game in the history of video games., no more and no less. The few terminals that exist in the world are in museums and many retrogaming enthusiasts dream of having one at home. This is exactly why Richard Horne started designing a terminal, this time printed in 3D.
The basic idea came from an electronics enthusiast who reported that he managed to recreate all of Computer Space’s printed circuits in TTL, without a microcontroller, without ROM or RAM. You can see the rest here: The discussions continued and even went so far as to mention the creation of a new machine taking into account the dimensions of the original developed by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.
A good impression
As you can see in the video (available below), Richard first modeled a smaller version from scratch. In fact, Richard Horne didn’t have a terminal for scanning, which is a shame since the object’s organic shapes are not that easy to reproduce. By using various stock images, searching online documentation, and relying on other nearby terminals (like Pong’s)The enthusiast managed to recreate the terminal down to the smallest detail.
Almost 16kg of plastic was used by 3D printers to produce the parts to be assembledBecause no, the terminal was not printed in one go by a giant 3D printer. Richard Horne justifies this choice by saying that if there is an error somewhere, it is enough to correct the small elements of the part to be replaced and then print it, rather than printing everything again. The various pieces are then assembled like a puzzle and then glued together, allowing a waiting period between each piece for the glue to dry. Now that the terminal is ready, all you have to do is equip it with the circuits and of course a monitor to make it functional. The appointment has been agreed!
