Part of the appeal Qbasic had to me as a kid, was that I read that it was occasionally used in a professional capacity. So this easy-to-learn, easy-to-use langu

Part of the appeal Qbasic had to me as a kid, was that I read that it was occasionally used in a professional capacity. So this easy-to-learn, easy-to-use language had the added cool-factor of being "real stuff". I don't think something like Gamemaker or Scratch would've had the same appeal - they'd just feel like baby's toys to me, whereas with something like Qbasic you knew you were actually doing "real" programming.