I'm another member of the TI-83 club. Shoutouts to the little L who made it all possible. Initially I used it in math to avoid having to do the rote computatio

I'm another member of the TI-83 club. Shoutouts to the little L who made it all possible. Initially I used it in math to avoid having to do the rote computations, but eventually I started building other stuff. I built a simple game that had you navigating an ASCII character to collect the pi while another ASCII character chased you. Frames would advance on input, sort of like a rogue-like. Eventually I made a text-based RPG combat game, where you would select enemies to battle, and gain XP to increase your stats which would allow you to fight higher level enemies, etc. The final boss's selection code was '666' and he was orders of magnitude more difficult than the next-hardest enemy. I also had a book about learning to program in C++, it was p bare bones and I didn't learn very much from it.