Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · Jul 5 1 / 2
We know now that Potshot didn’t use a standard teletype or a display monitor; Luehrmann explains in the film that the former was too slow and both too expensive to operate or own, respectively. Instead, it uses a plotter (or a storage display screen, a very specialized kind of monitor)!
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I absolutely love the level of ingenuity required to come up with this! This is so cool haha!
Players input the parameters of the match on a teletype, and the plotter draws the landscape and the cannons. You then take turns firing at each other and the plotter draws out each shot, color coded for each player. Score a hit, and it even draws an explosion!