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THE 40-YEAR TYPO

arry McCracken is not the name of a Cold War superspy, but a man who was once a developer for Radio Shack’s TRS-80 microcomputer. McCracken recently went back to have a look at his first game, , which he wrote when he was 16 around 1980-81—a text adventure inspired by the work of series.

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