I love BASIC Programming. One of the most captivating things about it for me is the box art: a 1970s future man at some sort of futuristic control panel -- I du

I love BASIC Programming. One of the most captivating things about it for me is the box art: a 1970s future man at some sort of futuristic control panel -- I dunno, maybe he's programming the weapons or climate systems of his domed bubble city. And the message is, BASIC Programming puts the power of what he's doing into YOUR hands. All richly detailed and painterly, like D&D art or other contemporary video game box art. Because the packaging for video games had to provide fuel for the imagination in those days... ultimately you were just guiding a blob of pixels around the screen, your brain had to fill in the rest. The fact that BASIC Programming was so limited, even compared to contemporary alternatives like a VIC-20, just makes the presentation more compelling.