[mgkimsal]

My uncle was friends with some guys who set up a small game shop in Michigan in... 1982? They had some text adventure games, and were branching out in to video games for C64 at that time. They were called Aardvark Software in... White Lake Township, I think. My dad and uncle took me out to meet them at their 'office' - a small house/shack with a whole mess of computers. I don't remember much of the visit, but the idea that people could just sit around and work on games was inspiring, as run down as the house was ;)

IIRC there was a cassette tape duplication machine, but that may just be a foggy memory. I seem to remember a lot of cassettes in plastic baggies, and there were some 5.25" floppy disks in baggies as well.

Right around that time they put out 'Pacacuda', a PacMan variation with a barracuda/fish angle. My uncle was angling to have them call it 'Fish Lips', but they stuck with Pacacuda.

Not sure what happened to them after that.