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This meme is so accurate to me that I TRULY cannot remember if I made it or not. (lemmynsfw.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The funny thing is for me is I never knew about this hidden game at the time. I was also like 6 at the time. I started on MSDOS 5 and wasn’t this in Win3.1? Wild this era of computing was. So many dip switch’s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I remember playing it on DOS-only machines. I think it started being included with QBasic in MSDOS 5. This is now unlocking a memory, for me. I remember, back in that era, I made a QBasic program that was literally the DVD screensaver, with the logo bouncing around...except it was just a circle with a gradient in it. I think I eventually upgraded it to being a smiley face. Anyway, that was long before the meme about screensavers like that, and the whole "OMG IT'S ABOUT TO HIT THE CORNER, SO SATISFYING" thing.

But the thing is, I distinctly remember having that "oooh, it's gonna hit the corner" feeling. And it was extra satisfying, because I had coded the collision physics for myself, including offsets for the origin point of the circle, so it would bounce off the edges, rather than slide halfway off the screen. It was a really awesome feeling.