hahahaahahha
oh god man!
that is priceless!

sigh...
yeah..
I remember those days....of code ..
and tape drives..
and magazines...

haha
I remember there was this one game I got running on the VIC...
it was a "farming" game...
it dealt with variables like cost of pesticide, herbicide, seed, etc.
it dealt with cost of machinery, weather variables,
even at the end of season..
once one has gotten their crop in..
it dealt with sale of one's crop..
and trying to stay ahead of the curve of debt..
to afford to keep the farm running into the next year....

It was naturally based upon speculation.
Speculating based on current value of crops...
that investing in seed, supplies, equipment and labor ...
and praying the weather would be good..
and hoping that once the crops were brought in..
that one's gamble on the going price of that crop would pay off.

I grew up a farmer..
I figured it was a cakewalk to win at such a game...
but surprisingly ..
I lost.
and I kept losing..
I kept going bankrupt and losing the farm...
I checked and rechecked and rerererechecked the code...
it was correct..
I played every conceivable outcome...
and always lost...

and then it finally hit me..
and I laughed and laughed...
the game was dead-on a perfect farming simulation.

ah those were good old days.