This will probably hit hardest with the folks on here who were high schoolers or Mids during the 90s.
There was a text based game you could load on to your graphing calculator (mine was a TI-85, but 82s, 83s, etc. also worked). It involved the premise of buying low and selling high drugs like weed, acid, coke, etc. Many a class were passed playing it while half listening.
Anyway, I got on a rabbit hole for text based games today and came across this Wired article from 2021.
John Dell, class of 89, wrote the original program as a sophomore in high school. Then re-wrote it into DOS. It took off from there and became a staple of calculator gaming long before smartphones were a thing.
Anyway, neat little story for a Sunday afternoon.
There was a text based game you could load on to your graphing calculator (mine was a TI-85, but 82s, 83s, etc. also worked). It involved the premise of buying low and selling high drugs like weed, acid, coke, etc. Many a class were passed playing it while half listening.
Anyway, I got on a rabbit hole for text based games today and came across this Wired article from 2021.
The Wild Spread of 'Drug Wars,' From Your Calculator to Your Phone
Originally a DOS game, it found a secret life on Texas Instruments calculators everywhere in the '90s, Now the game is available for a whole new generation.
www.wired.com
John Dell, class of 89, wrote the original program as a sophomore in high school. Then re-wrote it into DOS. It took off from there and became a staple of calculator gaming long before smartphones were a thing.
Anyway, neat little story for a Sunday afternoon.
