• YiddishMcSquidish
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    13 hours ago

    Tbf, given the time and available tech, any other options would’ve been worse, considering there were any.

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      4 hours ago

      Reflective LCDs would have been equally blurry, in full color, and still tolerated optional tennis-ball-green frontlights for playing under the covers.

      The real surprise came a decade later when everybody except Nintendo missed that active TFTs made color a decent option.