Quote Originally Posted by jb143 View Post
What got me interested in learning to program was a book about computers that I checked out from the school library in about 3'rd grade. It included a simple text adventure game in BASIC which led to me getting a Commodore 64. I ended up building on that simple game and created something of my own a lot larger(compared to the 1 page program in the book). It was a quest where you set off to slay the dragon that has been terrorizing the kingdom fighting battles along the way to build up weapons and armor. I wish I still had it, though I'm sure if I did I'd wince about how bad it actually was compared to my memory of it.

Fun times.
Yeah, I had a lot of fun programming the games I (tried) to create. One of the great things about the Commodore 64 was that you could change the colour scheme, so I would have a bit of fun with that. For this one game I made (which was, I suppose, in retrospect born of my wish that I had been able to enter Hades in Zork), the player character was a lost soul wandering through Hell, so I made the text red on a black background.

I wonder if the book you took out from the library was the same one I have? Did it use the game "Adventure" as an example?