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Developer returns to fix his “unplayable” lost game from 1981

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Arctic Adventure was released back in 1981 for TRS-80 microcomputers, but developer Harry McCracken has recently revisited the game to fix a bug that has rendered it unplayable for 40 years.After releasing Arctic Adventure as a game included within ‘The Captain 80 Book Of Basic Adventures’, McCracken was never sent a physical copy of his own game, though was told soon after release that a bug “rendered my game unwinnable”.Sharing the story of his quest to restore the game, McCracken said that he was eventually able to get his hands on a copy of Captain 80 and started to work on his game in July 2021, four decades since it was released.In high school, I wrote and sold a buggy TRS-80 adventure game set in the Arctic.

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