When I used to play MotherLoad, the world was still a bright place, full of possibility. I was on track to finish from a prestigious high school, accepted into a prestigious university, and obviously going to end up pretty comfortable in life.

Little did I know, that within me I had the seeds of mental illness growing. Perhaps, one of the signs, if I only knew to pay attention to it, was how "addicting" games were to me. I think the world back then just thought a lot less about those things, if you could still manage to be outwardly successful.

No one worried about what it meant that some kids finding a vibrant, "safer" environment in video games, than in the real world.

Ahhhh, MotherLoad.

I loved that game. I wrote a copy of it for desktop in c++ at the end of high school: https://github.com/Sytten/MineDeeper Please don't judge my code quality I was 16 at the time :)

Motherload? That game was terrific. You can still play it, though you do need Flash.

https://www.miniclip.com/games/motherload/en/

XGen Studios the studio behind MotherLoad actually released a remaster of the game a couple of years ago http://www.xgenstudios.com/super-motherload/

omg motherload. memories <3