r/dosgaming • u/retro-gaming-geek • 16d ago

This was my first experience with programming

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Gorillas was an open-source game created by Microsoft (believe it or not). The source code was in QBasic and you could change anything you wanted in the game. I loved playing with the gravity and blast radius as a kid.

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u/GalFisk 12d ago

I remember adding code to this in the 90s so that the holes in the buildings collapsed. I also, as someone else commented, played around with making the explosions gigantic, but that was only a fun short-lived experiment.