Haven in my youth

So, I stared to program games.

Most of my friends programed easy-style games such as reversi or StarTrek, but I developed real-time game such as aerial combat game. Yes I’ve been loving real-time games.

Of course I did not own my computer. I write down my program on papers at home and type the codes in the computer store. How fun was it! I studied determinant very hard to express the roll of aircrafts. The coordinaes transformation was implemented by BASIC. It was rather hard as BASIC of TK80 could handle only integers.

And it didn’t work well as the speed was too slow. Then I rewrite the program by assembler. Still too slow. So I modified the code. I repeated it again and again.

I was so serious to study math and programming, but I was not so so serious about the studies for exams in school.

Before long, our haven was lost suddenly…It was just about PC8001 was on the market. The computer industry was changing rapidly.

By the way, I’m sure there was kids who thought “I’m sure I’m going to develop Astro Boy someday!” I guess there are some of them in the develop team of ASIMO. I really wish to see a real Astro Boy