If you mean why aren't we building highly specialized hardware like this any more, I'd say it's because most of that complexity has moved into software running on general-purpose hardware, which is infinitely more flexible and maintainable.
[0] https://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=231.0
I highly recommend to have a look at it, it is incredible and totally fun to read!
Why would an arcade game be debuted at a gardening and greenery expo?
For example, Professor Iwatsuki gave the conference talk "Coexistence of Nature and Mankind in Urban Areas Role of Natural Science", and one of the forums was on "The Role of the Science in Building the 21st Century".
It was definitely partly a garden show. But it was also a scientific conference, discussing how to shape the world in the future, in a sustainable way. That meant any technological breakthrough was something to pull the crowd.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20130314172710/http://www.expo90...
It wasn't so common to encounter arcade places in the UK so I used to dos around shopping centres. Not much of a wow factor but the wow was had having fun with mates and now this has now shifted to online and online friends making such places redundant. It's as we are now allergic to go outside.
The work put in here is a perfect example of how motivation can be so much stronger if it’s for the love, done by volunteers, than for any amount of money.
It also evokes the Penn & Teller quote, “Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.”
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Queen_(video_game)#
You have a pocket device more powerful than Apollo 13 yet to actually preform restoration upon it is near-impossible. That itself will be a skill replaced by AI and as more future devices become completely unserviceable, all of this will just fade in to the darkness. It's broke, throw away and buy anew.
Young folk today are dumbfounded on how to top-up their oil, change their wheel for their car, I do ask is this as intended?
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