I guess 20 years ago CS students weren't told to "write a Doom-like game" as an awk homework =)

.....where do you go to school and how many credits can you transfer in with? :p

Well, there were those bored days with a TI-83... shudders at TI-BASIC

My son spends a ton of his class time programming games into his TI-83. He even built his own Final Fantasy type game (when he really should have been doing classwork). He built a battle system, and even a merchant/vendor for buying upgrades. I had a lot of fun playing his game, and offered him some ideas for improvement (which, again, were made during class time).

And yet, I can't get him to sit down and put any time into programming on a computer. Sigh.

TI-BASIC is a blessing and a curse. You can get the most non-technical people to write code in it, but if you've had experience in a REAL language, you can't bring yourself to.

hunt was written 30 years ago -- not 3D, but a reasonably sophisticated multiplayer terminal action game.