For many people in the 90s, trying to program a "game" or anything like that often involved C++. Try figuring out programming _and_ linking libraries you have

For many people in the 90s, trying to program a "game" or anything like that often involved C++. Try figuring out programming _and_ linking libraries you have to download off the internet (all before we had the kind of resources we have now). The IDE wasn't enough, you needed to set a bunch of stuff up. And using any GUI? OK now you're learning Win32. Sure, maybe it was easier to write the "number guessing game" in a text window. But only barely.