Hey Marty,

Thanks for the comment! Yes, you found this week's mistake designed to promote commentary and discussion. Yeah, that's the ticket!

For fear of betraying an even deeper ignorance to my reading public, I must admit that my only basis for refering to the system as analog was the title of the game -- Analogic get it? In the first version of this entry (over at Atari Age), I called it an analog system but removed the distinction from this post because I realized I didn't actually know that it was. Wouldn't you know it though, it snuck back in in the form of a poorly worded question and escaped my eagle eyed proofreading.

What the question should have been, and will be corrected to, in the event of a book or a third draft, is:

"Hey, that’s a pretty spiffy, original idea and a great way for dealing with a system that doesn't even do math!"

See? That way it doesn't misinform anybody, it merely informs redundantly! :)

Seriously, thanks for bringing it up, Marty, and thanks as well to the Armchair Arcade guys for pointing out the possible benefits to the doubt.