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uncamark:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 10:13 PM\'][quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 06:32 PM\'] Painting the puzzles on plywood and sawing them into 25 pieces sounds a lot easier. [/quote]
I'm sure that part was. Fixing the mechanical board when it broke down, instead of a simple reboot, prolly wasn't so much.[/quote]
Not to mention the potential cost of rebuilding the old mechanical game board, considering that the old boards had no doubt turned into scrap metal and spare parts years before after 20 years of service on both the network and syndie versions.  If it had just been stagehands pushing trilons behind the board, it may've been feasible to rebuild.  But computer-generated graphics were infinitely more economical to construct than a brand-new mechanical monster of a game board.

chris319:

--- Quote ---computer-generated graphics were infinitely more economical to construct than a brand-new mechanical monster of a game board.
--- End quote ---
Not infinitely more; a lot of programming and hardware went into that project. Infinitely less labor intensive to operate, that's for sure. You also didn't have to saw the 6th row of trilons off the old board.

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