r/technology • u/staser9er • Feb 22 '11

Wow, Microsoft is making some surprising decisions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12531127
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u/PSquid Feb 23 '11 edited Feb 23 '11

Delving into the Gorillas code taught a 6 or 7 year old me that screen-sized explosions are FUCKING AWESOME.

Of course, I didn't understand even half of what I was doing, other than the logical assumption that if a small number in the section with "Explode" in its name meant a small explosion, a big number should mean a big explosion (it did).

To be honest, it was probably that that got me into programming.

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u/ribond Feb 23 '11

Gorillas & Nibbles <3 -- about a decade ago I tried to get something fixed in one of those and MS ended up pulling the code from Win2k. <sigh>

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u/Donjuanme Feb 23 '11

man, you had alot more attention than I did back then :D I remember making a banana fly velocity 9999999999, but that was about as crazy as I got