My earliest PC experience was round at Baracus house as he was the only kid at school with a BBC Basic so he was instantly the “cool kid”.
It was either in the 80s or it might have been 2018 I can’t remember which, he was either way ahead of technology or had priceless vintage stuff.
I introduced him to his love of flight through this text based flying game with no graphics where you just typed “bank left”, “bank right”, “land” etc. For some reason it didn’t recognise his inputs of “dive”, “barrel roll”or “stol”. Tape drives hadn’t even been invented, we were running this thing off vinyls late in to the night.
While I quickly moved on to more modern stuff, the slow pace of the game and 4hz refresh rate is why even to this day he won’t consider any plane quicker than 85mph.
