[coldcode]

Having written a VT100 terminal emulator in 6502 assembly back in those days I remember it well. But games had to be more clever as the memory was so tight. At least in my case the only fun part was showing 80 columns of data on a 40 column screen (if the user had no 80 column video card). Today we can focus much more on just writing code instead of engaging in daily hackery.