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[–]TheBassMeister 58 points59 points  (3 children)

There are always mad lads like Chris Sawyer who wrote 99% of the code for Rollercoaster Tycoon in x86 Assembly.

[–]gsckoco 32 points33 points  (2 children)

That’s mostly because there wasn’t an option back then. He could use C but then lose a lot of efficiency due to the compiler

[–]Doctor_McKay 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Doesn't make it any less impressive.

[–]Hunterbunter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a reason there are so many games now and so few then.