The spirit of coding was different then. It felt like you could sit in a room with an idea and 4 months later have something people would be keen to play, even pay for.
What a time to be alive as a coder...
What a time to be alive as a coder...
Edit: Wikipedia tells me that at launch the Apple II cost the equivalent of $6700 for the 4k model or $13,700 for the 48k model.
Ya, I was a teenager at the time wanting to buy a computer but apple was about $1200. The color computer was only $399, so I saved for a long time then bought one and learned programming and how to make video games.
Now there's a glut of content. Will another opportunity ever appear again? In both cases, the opportunity didn't look good at first.
With AI we might go through an era of sameness and/or slop leaving the door open for something more genuine. Everything is cyclical.
As gamer in the 1980's, I only cares about what could actually get on a few shops around my hometown, and they were mostly games coming out from UK, and Iberian Penisula.
With the Amiga, German and French studios also became relevant.
Everything else was almost inexistent.
Also arcades had what they had, owners weren't changing games all the time.
I certainly did not felt that great manually translating Z80 opcodes into DATA entries, to be loaded via RANDOMISE USR instructions.
Got a bit better with hexdump editors, but good luck tracking down checksum errors.
Finally, debugging meant manually simulating the execution on paper, with arrows and boxes, to try to get a feeling of what could be root cause for the error.
Yeah, what a time.