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128 - What Makes Old Video Games Great?

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Nodumbquestionssciencehistorydestinmattsmartereverydaysmartereeryday, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0

So when I was a kid, my dad taught me how to make what's called a batch file.

0:12.4

An MS-DOS.

0:13.4

Do you remember what a batch file is?

0:14.9

Do you know what that is?

0:15.9

I feel like that's something I knew once, but I'm not sure I remember.

0:19.9

Basically, you could write a file that when you typed like one word, it would do all

0:26.5

the type in for you.

0:28.4

You could also make it display things.

0:30.2

And so one of the things I did on the computer we had is I had a bunch of video games.

0:37.0

And I thought I was like basically programming any act or whatever the first computer was.

0:44.6

Like I thought I was like doing something incredible, but I would type in something like

0:49.7

games.

0:51.7

And when I would type in games, the screen would come up and say, hello, Destin.

0:58.0

No audio, this was all text, but I had a voice in my head.

1:01.7

Well, hello, Destin.

1:03.4

What games would you like to play?

1:07.7

And I had categories and it was like action.

1:10.6

And really all I was doing was I just made a screen that had text on it.

1:17.9

Action, mystery, puzzles, you know, whatever.

1:20.9

And you would type whatever you wanted to play.

1:22.9

And another screen would come up and it had all the games that I had on the computer that

1:27.2

had those, you know, those categories in it.

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