[Hoodat]

(I just played a floppy of “The Oregon Trail” repeatedly)

Man, you had it made. I was still playing Hamurabi in BASIC on the TRS-80.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Heh. I think I may have tried that one out at some point. Those early computers were unbelievably expensive. I remember we got the new Commodore Amiga in 1986 and it was over $2,000 (which was state of the art). $2k almost 30 years ago is several times that now (somewhere between $4,500 to $7,500).

Of course, my parents never did allow me to get a phone modem, because they thought I’d turn into Matthew Broderick. Gee whiz, I only wanted to play “Global Thermonuclear War” (or “Leisure Suit Larry”).

[MaxMax]

Did you play the Twilight Zone? That was my first game on the TRS-80.
I had to program it in, then fix all the bugs from the magazine typos
to make it work. Programming was easy once you used it enough.