Don’t forget EXAPUNKS!

SHENZEN IO was my favourite by a mile. Although looking through a datasheet half-written in Mandarin to understand what was going on, at 2am, to then go into work at 6am and look through more datasheets half-written in Mandarin - well, I swiftly began to question my life decisions.

Theres a steam bundle of all the games for folks who somehow don't already have them. I donno if 9 hours of the HN spotlight shining on them created the bundle, which would be creepy-cool, or if its been there forever. At any rate, it would be a good deal for programmers who don't already have the games. I enjoyed the experience of reading the TIS100 manual, its probably worth a significant fraction the cost of the game itself LOL. $70 will buy you a dozen hours of the latest FPS sequel, or hundreds of programming puzzle hours...

Now, for another blast from the past, who remembers programming MSP430 code using the "Lockitall LockIT Pro"? Its a somewhat more serious "game" in the same genre. I found a printed manual for my Lockitall next to my TIS100 printout. I see the website is still up. My printout has a copyright date of 2013. I remember I was inspired to buy actual '430 hardware to play with, and that dev board is still laying around in my basement somewhere.