There really is some magic power in being able to reach first-party sources for things like this. It's also fun how "impossible" it can seem sometimes, especia

There really is some magic power in being able to reach first-party sources for things like this. It's also fun how "impossible" it can seem sometimes, especially (for me) if there's an age and/or geographic distance. For instance I grew up in the 80s in Sweden, and was really into computers (!) back then, too. I had a Commodore 128 (followed by Amigas). There was a lot of gaming going on in C64 mode, and of course "Uridium" [1] and "Paradroid" [2] were more or less staples that everyone knew about. It's still weirding me out that I have their author (Andrew Braybrook) in my Xitter feed [3], and that he is still doing game devlopment after all these years. Back then he felt like some kind of distant (he's from the UK, and more than a decade older than me) magician; now he's kinda/sorta my peer, at least professionally speaking. So weird. I realize things like this happened all the time before the Internet too, but it must have been harder and/or more rare. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uridium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uridium [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradroid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradroid [3]: https://twitter.com/UridiumAuthor https://twitter.com/UridiumAuthor