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by dexcs 1647 days ago
Back in those days there also was a game which i can barely remember: There were two monkey any you need to throw bananas at each others over or through skyscrapers... Does anyone know what game that was?
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Gorillas, on QBasic.

This game basically got me into programming, because you could easily edit the source code and then see how the game changed.

Same, though I didn't edit Gorillas itself. I played that as a kid, then later (c. 2000) in my Intro to Programming class in middle school, I cloned it in Pascal. I even randomly had it select a day or night background, with a randomly positioned sun or moon. Still think back on that fondly :)
haha nice!! Thanks, i will introduce that to my kids :) They will probably hate me...
QBasic Gorillas (gorilla.bas).
The only skyscraper game I remember was the one where you're flying a plane that's getting lower and lower and you have to bomb the scyscrapers before you crash into them.

Probably not a game that would get made today...