{"id":3059,"date":"2026-10-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/how-did-retro-consoles-handle-graphics-before-modern-gpus\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:00:00","slug":"how-did-retro-consoles-handle-graphics-before-modern-gpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/how-did-retro-consoles-handle-graphics-before-modern-gpus\/","title":{"rendered":"How did retro consoles handle graphics before modern GPUs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graphics chips could draw but not compute, until the Xbox arrived. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/how-did-retro-consoles-handle-graphics-before-modern-gpus\/intro-1790873864.jpg\" \/><\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/how-did-retro-consoles-handle-graphics-before-modern-gpus\/\">How did retro consoles handle graphics before modern GPUs?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphics chips could draw but not compute, until the Xbox arrived. Please credit: OBA Blog &raquo; How did retro consoles handle graphics before modern GPUs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}