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We were out better selves back then.

Seriously though any project of size almost had to involve large amounts of code written or printed on paper. Lots and lots of paper.

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Well, it depends. On some environments such as Lucas Arts they used Unix based OSes to develop SCUMM. With grep and such, editing and porting the engine could have been a breeze.

Half joking, by the time of the NES port he would have certainly had many available options for all that , but even with access to a timesharing system with real storage and all that in the earlier 80s having at least sections on paper for easy reference against printed manuals was handy.

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