Remember when games’ code was printed in the back pages of compsci periodicals? Yeah, that shit was crazy, and any/all bugs were often your own damn fault. 😅 What a teachable moment, every time.
Ha! I remember that one! And a “Conan” one, IINM? Another one like Zaxxon, but before its time, and others that riffed on (or predicated) other retail titles —as was the style at the time.
Even when I could get them to run, my younger siblings’d beg to try it, and somehow bork the thing by merely touching the keyboard —or it certainly seemed so 🤣
edit: Oh, man! I just checked out the link, and totally recognize that dragon as the one that changed the way I drew its kind for far longer than I’d like to admit. 😅
I was downloading cracked video games from BBSes in the early '80s.
Remember when games’ code was printed in the back pages of compsci periodicals? Yeah, that shit was crazy, and any/all bugs were often your own damn fault. 😅 What a teachable moment, every time.
I remember spending what felt like months typing in a game from Compute! magazine and never getting it to work.
Edit: It was Dragonmaster from this issue. It looked so cool to me, but as I mentioned I never got it running.
Ha! I remember that one! And a “Conan” one, IINM? Another one like Zaxxon, but before its time, and others that riffed on (or predicated) other retail titles —as was the style at the time.
Even when I could get them to run, my younger siblings’d beg to try it, and somehow bork the thing by merely touching the keyboard —or it certainly seemed so 🤣
edit: Oh, man! I just checked out the link, and totally recognize that dragon as the one that changed the way I drew its kind for far longer than I’d like to admit. 😅
C64?
Atari 800.
Almost 50 years ago…
When’s your next prostate check?
That’s between me and your dad’s penis
Sorry to tell you this, but my father is not a medical doctor.