I think it is also because of the game publishing industry. I made a Tetris clone in Pascal, running in a 286 machine with 1 MB of RAM. It took me about a week

I think it is also because of the game publishing industry. I made a Tetris clone in Pascal, running in a 286 machine with 1 MB of RAM. It took me about a week of coding, and it ran as a single segment program, so it was limited to 64Kb of memory. For me, this was the moment I learn about for loops. The program was a big collection of for loops. I could have made some original game, but being Colombian, living in Bogotá, no one would have bought it. Everything we had was pirated, so there was no incentive to actually publish anything.