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I distinctly remember being mesmerized by this scene at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kyiQzc4134

Super Mario 64 was a similar experience of "wow, this is new!".

Tron led me to code a 2D version of the lightcycle game on the C64, but it was super slow because I didn’t know assembly :). I then added random obstacles to the playing field to make it more interesting. A good friend later wrote Armagetron.

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