Cool retro console lets you play Conway's Game of Life

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For certain values of the word “play”.

Cool retro console lets you play watch Conway’s Game of Life

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You don’t play Conway’s Game of Life. Conway’s Game of Life plays you.

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That’s so good it’s annoying.

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One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves

I KNEW it was my parents’ fault!

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Life can be interactive, if it allows you to create and experiment with patterns in the game.

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How do you win the game?

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You make a Turing complete pattern

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Still waiting for that cool retro console that lets me play Progress Quest.

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David Brin’s “Glory Season” brought to reality!

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Neat design. It looks like something a xenoarchaeologist should be fiddling with in a sci-fi film.

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It’s not a game, it’s a synthesizer based on GoL.

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