I would have paid the weight of the disk in gold to get this when I was 17...

This game was so good that I had to delete it, it ate into my productivity to a degree that really wasn't healthy so one fine morning after I saw a viper on the wall of my little Amsterdam studio I decided enough was enough and wiped the disk.

I have a serious problem with that kind of addiction and need to do radical stuff to keep myself on the straight and narrow and this was the first time that I ran into my lack of self discipline. Kudos to Braben and Bell for what they built, they really set a new standard for video games on 8 bit personal computers.