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[–] xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My family's fist computer was a Tandy 1000 around 92. I was so stoked to make video games on the fly like Clarissa Explains It All did.

Little did I know game development takes a little more elbow grease than cutting and pasting pictures of your friends into an existing game format.

I learned a lot about getting around in DOS because the desktop OS it shipped with was garbage, at least.