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McCracken discovers his 1980s game was impossible to win
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9th September 2021, 06:52
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania
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 |  McCracken discovers his 1980s game was impossible to win Fixes it Fast Company tech editor Harry McCracken who developed games for Radio Shack's TRS-80 microcomputer had a look at one of his teenage efforts and discovered that it was unwinnable. According to Kotaku, McCracken’s first game, Arctic Adventure, was written when he was 16 around 1980-81 was a text adventure the game was distributed in book form and you had to type it in yourself in BASIC. This game appeared in the Captain 80 Book of BASIC Adventures: pages of type-it-yourself BASIC code, each entry its own adventure game. https://fudzilla.com/news/gaming/534...ossible-to-win |
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