[bsenftner]

I had a game company in '82 for Commodore VIC-20 and C-64 home computers. We sold our games on cassette tape, had to contract printers for the cassette labels and the package sleeves, and then myself and my partner heat sealed each one by hand. One of our games had a memory issue, as the memory was re-organized between two manufacturing runs of the VIC-20, so we printed the series of PEEKS and POOKS necessary to get the game to run after loading in our magazine ads - and it did not appear to impact sales. Made some money, but being "dumb kids" (17 years old) we went bankrupt. That experience gave me focus during my undergrad.

[hyp0]

That sounds way professional!

ZX81 game programmer here. A game shop said they'd stock it, but I was too exhausted from finishing the game to deal with the "business side" of arranging duplicating tapes, professional labels etc. (I didn't realize you could just do them one-by-one, by hand. Start small.) But it did get me a programming job at a games company (the interviewer later told me he didn't think a game that good was even possible on a ZX81).

Business side is important. Good to learn at 15.

[mdda]

Maybe the VIC-20 was quirky, but the Pet used PEEKs and POKEs. Oh, the memories (32Kb fully loaded)

[sizzle]

If you don't mind me asking, what did you do after undergrad?