For the old-skool gamers among us, here’s a post that’ll take you back:
Coding Horror: Rediscovering Arcade Nostalgia
I really miss the days of (relatively) easy programming languages. You could make a simple game in Atari Basic pretty easily, and I spent countless hours typing in games from magazines (not easy on the Atari 400 chiklet keyboard!) and then tweaking/customizing them. Then saving them on cassette tape. Heh, frustrating good times.