The game ran at an impressive clip, with fluid animation. Lode Runner had a few things over other games of the era, but perhaps most importantly, it was fast. So while my classmates were back in the classroom working away at geography or something, I was trying to plunder all of the Bungeling Empire's gold. What I wished, of course, was to play Lode Runner. (With Macs running System 2, that basically amounted to restarting the machines.) And when it was all over, I was allowed to spend some extra time in the lab doing as I wished. Every Friday, I'd spend some time helping clean things up and getting the computers back into order. I leveraged my good grades and good behavior to finagle my way into a role as the official fifth grade lab helper. So I volunteered for every opportunity to help in the lab. Kids can be remarkably conniving and motivated when it comes to getting what they want, and I wanted to play Lode Runner, one of a handful of games installed on the Apple IIe that our teacher guarded ferociously gaming on that system was a precious reward doled out for exceptional performance. And, after I ingratiated myself to the school's computer teacher, once a week in the lab. That didn't keep me from being drawn to and fascinated by video games, though it just meant I had to get my thrills where I could. It may seem strange in this day and age, when cheap and powerful computers appear not only in nearly every household but also in people's pockets (and soon on their wrists, it appears), but my family didn't have a computer when I was a kid. The Apple IIe played Lode Runner, and that was all that mattered. This might not look like much to you kids today, but to us kids back then it was super cool. It was enough of a beast that the lab teacher kept it around even after its mouse-driven successor had rendered it technically obsolete. Up until the Macs' arrival, the IIe had been the school's beefiest piece of hardware, easily shaming the countless TI machines the district had undoubtedly gotten on the cheap (Texas Instruments was a local manufacturer).
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I loved the Macs as much as anyone, but secretly, I only had eyes for a much older system, our school's sole remaining Mac forebear: The lab teacher's Apple IIe.
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In hindsight, a room full of Macs was quite an investment for a school in those days, but we all took to the systems immediately and began expressing ourselves in all sorts of interesting ways. In 1986, my elementary school computer lab had finally begun to phase out its aging TI99-4/As in favor of more contemporary (not to mention more kid-friendly) Macintoshes.
Today, the passing of Doug Smith, who created one of the first Western games to become a major hit in Japan. While Jeremy is in Japan for Tokyo Game Show this week, he'll be blogging about interesting aspects of current Japanese game culture. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.
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