Thanks amber, I loved it at the time, although looking back I much regret that all that time hand coding meant time away from family.
Most people used to go to video arcades to play; I almost never played. Instead, I watched others play and studied the games to figure out how they created them. Then it was back to 1's and 0's at home (until the first graphics packages came out and I realized I could write a tool to cut the images from a pic).
Now the art belongs to the true masters like Thomas.