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by csa 735 days ago
Oh, fond memories.

I learned BASIC programming when I was 11 in 1981 (I think that’s right) at a summer computer camp on an Apple II.

I made a simplified version of lunar lander… it was ridiculously fun to make and play.

One of my cohort mates who was in the “advanced” Pascal class is still my friend to this day.

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OP here. Cool! I was born in 1969, less than a month before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, and was only a few months old when this game was written. I too learned BASIC, then spent hours pouring over the book "BASIC Computer Games", before I even had a computer of my own. Fond memories, as you say.