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Best old-school game was Elite, that had such a deep level of gameplay in it especially considering what the programmers in that age had to deal with.

Yeah Philosphers Quest sold like 25,000 copies I think, made my Dad what was in those days a lot of money.

I used to love writing silly annoying programs in BASIC eg

10 P."Simon stinks of poo"...

Philosophers Quest was his main one, Countdown to Doom, etc.

Awesome. More of an English thing but I grew up with the BBC Micro, my Dad wrote the best selling text adventure games for it and did very well from that.