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From: "Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby" <wichitajayhawks@msn.com>
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Subject: Re: Video games are a waste of life
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:21:17 -0500
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vallor wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 18:35:04 -0700 (PDT), entwickeln14 wrote:
> 
>> On Saturday, June 17, 2023 at 8:07:31 PM UTC-4, nikolai kingsley wrote:
>>> "a while ago" being around 1988.
>>
>> Hello.
>> What's new?
>>
>> e
> 
> hi
> 
> In 8th grade, I wrote a game on the Commodore PET.  You
> would maneuver your avatar (an asterisk) through a landscape
> of constantly-changing random blocks appearing and disappearing.
> 
> Kind of a funky maze game.  Would have been around 1981.
> 
Lies.  You never did that. You can't even count to 1981.

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