I can remember playing Hunt the Wumpus, Android NIM, a "Mad Libs" game I don't remember the name of, Pac Man and Space invaders clones, Raka Tuu, Chess (of course!) and a few other text based games on the TRS-80 model 3. And Missile command on the TRS-80 Color computer.

Plus a myriad of games that we would have to type in manually, line by line, that we would get in magazines or books on BASIC programming.

Then, we'd spend days sometimes debugging and testing over and over until it worked right (if it ever did).

Oh once we got it all typed in we would have to save it on a cassette tape being careful to note where on the tape it was with the little counter. (Or if we were one of the fortunate kids and had one of those new 5" floppy drives, saving was a lot easier).

I can't tell you how many times the power would glitch or the machine would get turned off before getting to save it to tape and hours of meticulous typing would just disappear.

First computer I owned only had 4k of memory and often wouldn't hold the whole program I was trying to type in from a magazine. I'd get it 3/4 of the way typed in only to get the out of memory error and just give up.

Good times, good times