Wow, such a positive response! I forgot about Nibbles!
I didn’t think to add that what prompted me to suggest this is that I found some QBasic code I had written in 1997 on a double density floppy disk. I could only read the contents of the disk on an ancient laptop I inherited because most USB floppy drives only seem to support high density (1.44 MB) disks. Looking back at it, my game was composed almost entirely of Easter eggs and secrets that only I knew. Ah, youth…
Notes thus far: read the objectives, run past enemies, you can blow everything up, and… what kind of footwear does the protagonist have? It’s like hard heels clacking on concrete everywhere!
I played pretty much every shareware game I could get my hands on. Many were downloaded from a BBS.
Highlights (note: I forget which were shareware and which were not): Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Moraff’s World, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, Scorched Earth, One Must Fall: 2097, SimCity 2000, Syndicate, Epic Pinball, WarCraft I/II, Incredible Machine, Blake Stone, and… gorillas.bas!
