• YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    For me it was a golf game but it was probably ASCII only, played on a green monitor, sometime in the late 70s. I loved that game. Either that or my memory is playing tricks with me.

    • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social
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      2 months ago

      Is it Focal Golf?

      Would look something like this, but… green, of course.

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      You could also check out this post on Atari Archive, this video by them too, and this collection of software you could search through using Ctrl + F and then “Golf”. There’s a lot of possible matches there.

      There doesn’t really seem to be a lot of actual playable options or even recordings of a lot of them, though.

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        2 months ago

        Awesome thanks. I don’t think it’s Focal. It was a computer my friend’s dad brought home from work and I don’t think it was on tape.

        • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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          2 months ago

          There’s a non-zero chance it was a game someone he worked with just made. My dad used to work with a guy that would program playable text based games during his down time (this was in the 90s), he ultimately went on to work at an actual game company from what I remember.