WHY THIS ERA? The chip scramble isn’t new.

LOG // CONTEXT

AI demand is starving the world of semiconductors today. In games, the same story already played out half a century ago.

ARCH // 1970s

In the mid-1970s, when home video games exploded, winning wasn’t only about a fun idea. It was also about how many of the chips you needed you could actually secure.

ARCH // CHIP WAR

Around 1975, the race was to put Pong on a single chip for mass production. The next year, the “Pong on a chip” boom outran supply and the scramble went full tilt. Makers who locked chips early took the market — that was already real history.

MISSION // CORE

GameHardMaker lets you redo that hardware history of fighting over chips — yourself.

COMING SOON

All ages · Command-based business simulation

GameHardMaker

Replay 50 years of game hardware history with your own hands

COMING SOON

DEVELOPMENT NOTES

2026-07-14

Suddenly I wanted to make an all-ages game

An urge to push AI hard and make a game that feels fun in my own way—and to put it on Steam. Starting a sim focused on game hardware.

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