I'm a novice C programmer at best, so (warranted or not) that bit of flavor was enough to give me pause. I thought if I was going to make an investment in learn

I'm a novice C programmer at best, so (warranted or not) that bit of flavor was enough to give me pause. I thought if I was going to make an investment in learning something new, that it might as well be something that I'd already been wanting to learn and would be useful elsewhere. I totally agree with you that just because you _can_ write complex games in Assembly, that doesn't mean you should. I wasn't knocking using C to write NES games at all and won't claim to even begin to know how to address that scenario you laid out. Anyways, your answer was interesting, informative and full of what sounds like hard won wisdom. Thanks for taking the time to put it together. If you're up to sharing the details, I'd be interested in checking out your games.