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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was called "Water Carrier". It was a simple labyrinth game that - because I had no way of saving it to a tape, disk, or similar - I had to type in line by line whenever I wanted to play it.

Yes, I'm a bit longer in the business than most of you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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