When I was a kid I wrote an ascii-art dungeon exploration game in BASIC on our Tandy 1000. I worked on it for months, maybe even a couple years, adding and addi

When I was a kid I wrote an ascii-art dungeon exploration game in BASIC on our Tandy 1000. I worked on it for months, maybe even a couple years, adding and adding. One day the floppy it was on failed. I actually did rewrite it, and I remember noticing how much better the code was. I didn't have to think about game design at all, just about the code. In fact it was around that time that I finally understood what GOSUB was for. I wouldn't be surprised if it was that rewrite that brought the realization.