> Computers aren't that much faster. I don't know about that. I grew up in the 80's and was always trying to make games, first in BASIC, then in Turbo Pascal,

> Computers aren't that much faster. I don't know about that. I grew up in the 80's and was always trying to make games, first in BASIC, then in Turbo Pascal, and it was always a struggle to get the required speed. You always had to resort to ridiculous assembly language hacks, etc. At some point in the early 90s, I kind of quit trying to make games. Then in 2007, I was thinking about how much faster computers were "now", and it occurred to me to try to make a game. And so I wrote a little game kind of like Williams Defender in C[1], and I didn't have to do anything special to make it fast enough. I just wrote it in a straightforward way. No weird assembly language hacks, no opengl, nothing but just plain old GTK. "Only" an order of magnitude faster is a lot faster. And you haven't even considered the GPU. If you start using OpenGL, suddenly you can do so much more. I think you're underestimating how hard it was just to even get the simplest thing to be fast enough back in the days of the 8086 or even a 486DX. [1] https://smcameron.github.io/wordwarvi/ https://smcameron.github.io/wordwarvi/