Blog Projects Twitter GitHub Tumblr Email A high-stakes game of telephone switchboard operation. Hello, Operator! is a game played on a vintage telephone switchboard from 1927, a refurbished Western Electric 551-A. You'll listen to callers using a vintage telephone handset, connect calls by physically connecting patch cables between ports, and receive feedback through a series of status lights. The game teaches you how to use the hardware exactly how it would have been used in 1927. The game itself is a time management sim in the vein of Tapper or Diner Dash . You're tasked with working a manual telephone switchboard in the 1920s. Connecting a single call is easy; managing a dozen increasingly-impatient customers while you only have three or four phone lines is much harder! If you're interested in the hardware, I've written a blog post about wiring it up. Earlier pr...