John Carmack's First Game

I think the one big difference is that he shipped. I don't think the other comparisons matter.

> Does one discover one's inner burglar?

"If you find yourself in the right adventure," replied Bilbo.

I think it was meant to be humorous. A more obvious example: "Let's say, I, uh, experimented with incompetence at the time!"

I would steal games from stores, take them home, copy them (using this ridiculously clunky 1x IDE cd copier that had to be mounted outside the computer in a frame and held up by elastic bands, to get a decent yield), and return them.

I got caught, funny enough when returning a disc rather than stealing it.

This turned into my first job as the guy agreed to not make a big deal out of is if I used my Ape50 to do deliveries for him after school for a bit. After the bit ended, we decided we got along, so I kept working there afternoons until I graduated, and two years fulltime after graduation.

Then the place closed because a Euronics opened two streets over, and I moved to the US for university.

Awesome, is it written in TI-BASIC?

It's neat that you still have it, though. Pretty much everything of mine from around then has long since vanished.

(though apparently a few utility programs I wrote for class were still being passed around after I graduated. I sometimes wonder how long that lasted, though by now they've no doubt disappeared as well)

I find remarkable he still has his games.

The very few I made myself in gwbasic died with the double side floppy disks (720KB!) were I had them stored. At some point at the end of the 90s I tried to recover them, but it was already too late.

It's a shame. Not that they were good games in anyway, but that's how nostalgia works :)

You are dealing with one of the coauthors of "Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement"!

There's a video of someone playing Shadowforge and Wraith on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7py_FGQ5tU