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Gamers. What was the game that got you into the hobby? (ttrpg.network)

submitted 1 year ago by rickrolled767@ttrpg.network to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean you had to code the entire game from scratch? Was this back when games were just 20 lines and some chutzpah?

[–] Treczoks@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

No, you bought magazines back then which had pages and pages of printed source that you typed in. And hoped that you didn't make mistakes. That's actually why I learned debugging before I learned to code ;)

And this also was the way I earned the money for my second computer - I wrote about 50 games on my own for my first one, some of which I sold to such magazines by saving them on casette tapes with a modified casette recorder. I wrote so many games, they published them under aliases...