SoftICE oozed of hax0rz. I did the same thing, training old games like Alley Cat, Digdug, Eagle's Nest, Captain Comic etc. All about getting infinite life, energy, ammo.

Then it was cracking copy protection. A couple of NOP's and a JMP to the correct place (for the easy ones).

#cracking4newbies on EFnet. +ORC (Old Red Cracker), +Fravia and everyone in +HCU (High Cracking University). Wow.. I remember I used to have dreams.

Then win32 came along, and made everything much more complicated.