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I've been around computers since the first home computer was factory-built (wanted an Altair, but could not afford one at the time).<br />I spent hours at the keyboard of the Commodore C64, and the Vic-20 before it.<br />I learned to program in Commodore's easy version of basic, and had a blast. I made a program (with the help of my son), that translated morse code. <br />But many lonely nights were made easier by playing some of the best video games ever made. Sure, by today's standards, most were pretty lame. But I remember a game (reminded by a show on the history channel, telling of the "dambusters"), The C64 had a game called "Dambusters", which was very lifelike, and true to the history of the sortis flown durring WW-II.<br />It was my all-time favorite game.<br />Then there was the classic, "Bolder dash".<br />The hardest part of playing some of those oldies was the load time.... Plug the expansion cartrage in, put the 5"floppy in the massive drive, and type-in the old command, "Load 8,1,*"....Then, go brew some coffee, take a shower, and come back and wait.<br />But it was worth it.<br />Does anyone else have a favorite game from the golden era of "pre-Gates"?