could be 16k ROM or 12k ROM, whatever they were. So there's more space for like, computer opponents, you know what I mean? And rudimentary artificial intelligence, that type of thing. So there's a lot of interesting quirky things in those sports games that come up and they're kind of updated. And, and of course, the, you know, yeah, baseball world. Now the title is like World Series baseball or something like that world championship baseball with its great emulation of the television set, but until televised…
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... there was some recognition that this wasn't a fad that this was going to go on and be its own, you know, thing for many, many years to come. But then also bringing back the sports titles, you know, the super sports stuff, like I think that was pretty cool. By this time, the cartridges could be 16k ROM or 12k ROM, whatever they were. So there's more space for like, computer opponents, you know what I mean? And rudimentary artificial intelligence, that type of thing. So there's a lot of interesting quirky things in those sports games that come up and they're kind of updated. And, and of course, the, you know, yeah, baseball world. Now the title is like World Series baseball or something like that world championship baseball with its great emulation of the television set, but until televised baseball, right. But that's a great point Braxton's making, because in television originally got started with sort of sports games as their calling card. And that was what showed the intelligence is what distinguished them from Atari. They got all those early licenses like NFL football. And then in the sort of 18 months before the crash, there was a big shift towards arcade games, because that was what was selling better, it was to compete with Atari, it really made the overlays irrelevant. So you have these overlays that were basically just a picture, right, we just press one player or two player or whatever. But by the by the end, ...