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You Need a PC for PC Games: Sunsoft's Shanghai (nicole.express)
musicale 12 days ago [-]
> You Need a PC for PC Games:

Sure, you could use a "PC" (like the Apple II used for the first screenshots) ... if you don't have access to a PLATO system!

> Brodie Lockard, who discovered the tile-matching game as he dealt with recovery from an injury that had left him paralyzed, porting it to the PLATO system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)

ndr42 13 days ago [-]
Oh my. I was about 11-12 years old in 1987, my father promised me a game for the Atari ST, we were in a computer store and the Dragon looked so cool on the cover so I chose the game without knowing what it was.

My parents played Shanghai for more than 10 years daily. Me not so much.

Edit: I repeated this kind of mistake a bit later by choosing "Knight Orc", a text adventure game with static pictures but with a cool cover. In english. Not the best choice when you start learning english in school when you're 10.

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