For many of us, if we wanted the computer to do anything, we had to type in entire programs from books like 101 Basic Computer Games, by hand... like so. I also loved Creative Computing, but it was a little before my time:1971 – Ahl ports the programs from FOCAL to BASIC. 🙌1978 – a second edition of BASIC Computer Games is released, this time published by Ahl himself. As you can see, there’s no way average people in 1973-1976 were doing a whole lot with BASIC programs, as they had no microcomputers capable of running BASIC to buy! ... in 1973, DEC published an anthology, 101 BASIC Computer Games.