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by Jeema101 782 days ago
Interview from one day ago with the original author of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIoYM_p3HX4

Interesting takeaways:

* The game was developed for the company that the author worked for in 1984 as a demonstration of the company's networking tech. It was supposed to only be for their clients. But it ended up being copied and passed around and by 1988 (at the latest) it was being distributed by shareware distributors.

* There is an Atari ST port that the author made around the same time as the PC version which apparently never made it onto the internet but might still be floating around somewhere (on disk or ROM cartridge) in his personal collection of stuff.

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This video is from the author of the website :)