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by jayski 690 days ago
I love it. I too started programming with QBasic in the 90s. I spent many hours modifying (and breaking) the code for bananas.bas and nibbles.bas to give myself all kinds of superpowers.

I haven't touched QB in decades but I'm glad someone did and had fun working on it.

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GORILLA.BAS, no?

That being said, exactly the same here. My first program that was ever used by anyone other than me was a National Lottery number picker for my grandad :) saved him 20 minutes a week...

You're right! It was gorilla.bas, cheers!
I made around 200 QBasic games when I was a teenager with no internet to help me, and it gave me so many amazing skills that I still use today!
That's fantastic. Are they published somewhere?