I need a break from the insanity of work. I am plum tuckered out from messing with databases today.
‘24′ - the unaired 1994 pilot
While up in Delaware for Thanksgiving, my brother’s colleague Peter showed us this hilarious video, a spoof of the show “24″ showing an “unaired 1994 pilot episode.” In it, Jack Bauer has to disarm a bomb and save the world using 1994 technology — pagers, AOL chat rooms, and damn dial-up.
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Just thought I’d add Q of the Day: What was your first computer?
I had a horrid little 8088 with two 5.25 disk drives — but it did have a 10 MB hard disk, which was a big deal in 1990.
Someone also passed a Kaypro on to me. Talk about a tank!
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The first computer on which I ever worked was the IBM compiler at college. We wrote our code using keypunch. I have a friend who goes back to the days of paper tape.
The first one I ever owned was a Commodore 64. The next one was an 8086 with dual floppy. The 20 Mb hard drive cost me $310. Built it out of parts purchased at computer shows. The monitor was an RGB model with no case that was also home-made and which I bought, used, for $50. I took particle board and built a case for it to keep the cats from getting fried in the works.
TI-994A, with God knows how little memory and a cassette recorder instead of a disk drive, early 80-s. It did have a very entertaining Pac-Man knock-off.
The first IBM-style PC was a Tandy 1000 from Radio Shack; the best game I ever played on that was one of the Kings’ Quests.
Apple IIC in 1984 (or maybe 83). With no hard drive and a mighty 256K worth of memory! But you could do word processing and play Zork on it.
I had a TI-994A, too, and loved the stuffing out of it. It had lots of very fun games, and I learned all my programming skills while working it. Too bad it was in BASIC!
A sperry AT clone that I bought used in 1990. It’s still in my basement somewhere.
Timex/Sinclair 1000. (Zilog Z-80-based system with 2K of RAM and a wacky custom BASIC interpreter. For any Britons in here, it’s the US variant of the ZX81, which came with with an extra kilobyte of memory.)
The first one I ever had was a relic at the time - a microcomputer with no hard drive, which me and my siblings used to ass around with BASIC and play Codename Droid, Elite and other truly ancient games. We wore it to death. After that I sometimes used my father’s laptop or the PC at my sister’s house (2 gig hard drive, 32 meg of RAM), but didn’t get my own til 2003 (30 gig hard drive, 250 meg RAM, and an unbelievably heavy 15-inch monitor I bought secondhand for £20, which nearly ripped the arms from their sockets on the way home. Anyone else remember stupidheavy monitors?)
Aside from a really shitty IBM in 1987 that was basically a glorifired word processor, my first computer was an Everex 386 DX with VGA graphics card (256 colors!!) and Windows 3.1 (wow!). IIRC, 80 megabyte hard drive and around 4 megs or so of ram. I find it hilarious it could barely hold three Mp3 files on its hard drive to day, but it did have a Sound Blaster card. Which was extremely cool back then.
The first computer I remember playing on when I was in 1st or 2nd grade is my parents’ Commodore 64.
A Commodore 128 (1985), which was about as useful as a doorstop, but I did learn BASIC through it. I had to deal with a couple of IBM PC-ATs and XTs at work, and a micro-tape driven Alkon Compu-Key, a specialty batch-control computer which actually had a lot of functionality for its year (1984).
Then we were graduated to a UNIX-based dispatching system, that I had to make talk to a QNX batching system — and explain to my bosses why what the salesman had told them were lies.
My first upgrade at home (from the C-128) was a 386, followed by a 486.
My parents gave me a Commodore VIC20 for Xmas when I was ten in 1982. 5K (yes, that’s KILOBYTES) of RAM, and an external cassette tape drive!
HA!
We first had something from Texas Instruments. That was rapidly followed by a Commodore 64.
At school, we had TRS-80’s (pronounced, of course, as “Trash 80″) to play around with.
It was a Radio Shack; I forget the model, it was between the TRS-80 and the RS 3. I think a RS 2. It used eight inch floppies. I kid you not. This was around 1983.
A word processed document would crash if it was more than 5 pages. It didn’t have templates; I would save documents in different versions and use them as templates.
My dad bought a Commodore Pet way back in, I don’t know, those years are a bit of a blur. But you could play Hangman on it after loading the program with a cassette tape.
A cassette tape.
Wow I had forgotten about the “pay by the minute” internet usage problems of yore. I vaguely recall Adam Corrolla or some radio DJ saying AOL’s 20 HOURS FREE disks were like 20 hours of crack. There used to be stories about how teenagers would rack up these huge bills on AOL being online for hours and hours.
Anyway my first computer…well I remember begging my dad to bring home his Apple IIe so me and my brother could play Lemonade Stand. Then we eventually got a Commodore 64 that had Lemonade Stand on cassette tapes. (I’m still unclear how computers could work off cassette tapes but they did).
Heh. I built my own computer in the late 70s from a kit my mother bought at Radio Shack.
The first computer I ever used was a Commodore PET, a very TRON-looking system with a tape cassette drive. I believe it belonged to my uncle; I remember playing space invaders on it.
Since then, the family has owned a Vic-20, a Mac Plus, a Mac Portable (A 16 pound “laptop”), a Powerbook Duo 230, then a 486/DX 66 that was written off in an office fire, yet worked very well.
Once I moved out to go to post-secondary education, I was given the Portable to use. Would you believe that it was still able to connect to the internet over a 56K modem in 1998? Black and white screen, but it could still do e-mail, text-based MU*s, ICQ, and the internet in glorious black and white using Mosaic, the precursor to Netscape.
Officially, my first computer was a PowerMac G3 266 desktop, the last generation of Apple’s beige computers.
An Amstrad PCW, bought for nearly a thousand pounds in 1987. It had a dedicated printer, two floppy-disk drives, and its own green monitor. I adored it, and used it for 10 years.
The laptop I use now would have seemed science-fictional to me in 1987, and I would never have imagined either that I would own something like that myself, or that it would cost me half what the Amstrad cost me for so much more.
When I was 6, in 1977, my dad brought home our first PC. I’m not even sure what it was, it might have been an Altair. You could program in BASIC on it.
My father programmed mainframes for the government, dating back to the days of punch cards (he used to bring home boxes of old cards that we would draw on). He was one of the guys who implemented two-digit dates way back when. In the late 90’s, he made a fortune working as a contractor, both in private industry and government, to go through COBOL code and fix the date problems.
I once asked him why they didn’t use four digit dates. I mean, sure it saved space, but they must have known the year 2000 was going to come eventually. His answer, paraphrased, was:
“We told the bosses that this was going to be a problem, but they figured all these computers would be gone by the year 2000. We knew this was wrong, but we figured that even if the computers were still here, we’d all be retired, so screw ‘em.”
Back in 1987 or so, I had a Commodore Amiga 500 with an extra external disk drive, an external modem, and the memory expansion pack…and the best graphics going until about the late 1990s.
My favourite programs for it were Word Perfect 4.1 and the Deluxe Music Construction Set.
Man, was I crushed when I had to learn how to use a PC and not only was the mouse useless, but you had to make it do things by typing stupid commands…
I also had a Commodore Vic 20, if I remember correctly the RAM was actually 3.5 KB. Only a couple of years later I could have the coveted cassette-recorder.
Zork! Squee!
I’m going to download that game this weekend.
At college (mid 80s) - a VAX mainframe where you had to .html code your basic word processing = I rarely used it.
At home, by 85 or so we had a first generation Mac. Remember those adorable little tan towers with the tiny curved NASA screens? But already with the desktop and icons and basic word processing - including footnotes. I loved it.
I took a BASIC class in high school (early 80s) - but I have no idea what those black screen/white print computers were.
My first was an Apple 2C+, with it’s monochrome green screen and the super advanced 3 inch floppy drive built right in! It must have had at least 50 k of memory. Oh, and no mouse. I used that thing until 1995 and remember writing my Senior AP English paper on it, printing it out on our dot matrix printer.
It’s astounding to think that my iPod dwarfs that machine’s memory and processing power and all it does is play music.
Evan more amusing is the thought that my 5 year old Powerbook G4 laptop is faster and more capable than all the supercomputers NASA had in 1969. The thought of using my laptop to put a man on the moon is cool though.
I worked in an accounting office in 1983, and the computer we used was a honkin’ huge Burroughs B-80 emulator. Took up half my office. Two 8″ floppy drives and a cassette drive.
Got my first TraSh-80 back in ‘79
First computer I ever used was an IBM Systems-32 mini.
First computer - of a sort - I ever owned was of, a Magnavox Odyssey2 game console that could be coded on in a weird assembly method… I learned to count in octal when I was 9!
Then came the Commodores. Vic 20, several C64s, C128 and eventually an Amiga2k. Then both x86 and 68k based BeBoxen and now OS X Macs. We also had a really early Panasonic 8086 luggable but I hated that thing with a passion that has lasted to this day in regards to M$ operating systems.
Let me give you a belated welcome to Delaware, the chemical/credit card state!
I had a TRS-80 in 1977 or 1978. Read programs off of cassette tapes. It had 4K of memory.
But speaking of blasts from the past, this week NBC is rerunning *really* old Leno episodes. Like, 1993. Last night he was making jokes about Les Aspin and talking with Julia Roberts about her marriage to Lyle Lovett. Jokes about Clinton were about MacDonalds. Such simpler times.
Speaking of Zork, It Is Pitch Dark.
Apple II with 16k RAM and a cassette player (no disk drive).
wow…. norbizness and I must be long lost twins or something.
The first computer I ever used was a TI99-4a, my father had an unerring gift for identifying tech products about to reach an unglamorous end and buying them.
The second was a TRS-80 from Radio Shack.
As a budding young geek I also picked up a Timex/Sinclair 1000 from a garage sale for $5, with the extra 2K ram pack!
I learned BASIC in 1983 on a Commodore 64 with a b/w TV for a monitor and a tape recorder plus casette tapes in lieu of a disk drive and floppy disks.
IBM PCjr. The Edsel of early home computers, 5.25″ floppy, slow as molasses. But I did play on the PET at school, and learned some BASIC. 10 goto 20, baby! (or is it 20 goto 10? It’s been a while). Computers were really nothing more than fancy word processors to my English-major self until the Internet came along.
Even so, I did not venture onto the Internets until 1998, at my horrible marketing job, where I discovered the late lamented Hissyfit.com and lost hours of my life in sweet communication with snarky soulmates. That’s the first time having a personal computer really became a necessity, instead of just something to play with. Never been without one since.
First computer I ever used was a teletype connected to the kick-ass mainframe (well, it probably had less RAM then the laptop I’m on now, but it kicked ass at the time) at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley. A room with a couple dozen noisy, grease-stinky teletypes, and a couple dozen geeks playing Star Trek and Wumpus…
I used a Commodore Pet in 4th grade, I think, just like Dr. Locrian’s dad’s. Oh, and the keyboard was harder to use than a Blackberry’s.
First computer at my house was an Apple II+, complete with 64K RAM and a couple of floppy drives, that my parents bought.
And I had to type uphill in the snow, both ways, to play The Count !
Has the copyright run out on ZORK yet? That’d be fun to dl….. for free, that is.
Our cel phones could easily handle the load.
I had an S-100 bus machine with an 8080 and 2x 8″ floppies running CPM. . . man what a great machine. My first computer job was as an operator for a PDP-1170 - back when computers still had OPs, and networks were still serial terminals. I had a DEC terminal at home with an acoustic modem to access work and the ‘Internet’ - such as it was. One of my friends had a commadore PET - he was considered cutting edge. The PET was great — it looked like it fell out of a 70’s movie — like the forbin Project.
IBM-PC 8088 represent! TWO 5 1/4 floppies, a monochrome monitor, and a “composite” monitor that displayed CGA graphics in four shades of green. No hard drive whatsoever. Dad got it for Xmas in 1982. I loved that thing.
The first computer that was actually “mine” came when I went off to college in 1995. Top-of-the-line Pentium-90, with a whopping 850 megabyte hard drive. I’ve still got the hard drive and the keyboard from that computer.
Incidentally, Activision’s released Zork 1-3 for free: try here.
Another TRS-80 Color Computer 2 here. Hooked up to the television. It had a cassette drive. I could program the hell out of that thing, in between rounds of Dungeons of Daggorath. (A-space-L-enter! A-space-L-enter!)
My dad worked for Digital in the early 80’s when they were trying to develop their home computing division. We always had some crappy machine around the house, but the one I remember the most was the Rainbow 100. I remember my brother programming some BASIC games, but five year old me did not have the patience to wait for what seemed like forever to play Hangman or whatever.
My dad was working for IBM before I was born, so as far as I can remember we have always had a computer.
My first memory of it is when I was 4 (1987/88) playing games. I don’t know what kind it was (other than IBM). But I hated that dotmatrix printer.
Oh, goodness. I remember using Apple II’s in school. In college, I worked mostly on the VAX system, until we got a Mac CLASSIC in the RA lounge. My first computer of my own was an old Powerbook. But when I was in high school, my parents bought us something. I remember getting an A on a high school project because I programmed something in BASIC. Shit, I had to learn FORTRAN in college.
Our family’s first computer was an Apple][ plus, bought circa 1980. Like NewsCat, we played Lemonade on cassette tapes before we got an external floppy drive. Then it was a lot of Space Invaders, Wilderness Campaign, and Akalabeth. And the one about being a fish surviving predators in a pond (”you are a dolly varden!”). And of course, early-generation educational software (onscreen latin and music theory flashcards, woo!).
“So, did you hear about Nancy Kerrigan?”
Still chuckling…
Commodore 64. I think I was six, so it would have been 1983 or 1984. I wrote all my high school papers on an Amiga 500, and met my prom date on a BBS.
1997, Windows 95 PC, Pentium II at 233MHz with 32 MB RAM and a 5 GB HDD. Top of the line, at the time….
Aw, I had a Kaypro. Good times. I used to play Zork on it.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Oh, man, did I ever need a giggle. No, copyright on anything written for a personal computer (post-1979) is likely a corporate work and will be copyrighted for ninety-five years after its initial publication. The source code, of course, will have long turned to dust.Luckily, though the games are still in copyright, you can download and play them from this site, along with a gigantic variety of other Z-machine games. There are walkthroughs and hints also, if you’re that sort of player.
As for me, my first machine was built before I was born; it was an old IBM PC with the two floppy drives. I used to write silly BASIC programs when I was very, very little. Nothing particularly exciting, but I think I figured out how to write “Guess My Number” on my own.
I should add that I didn’t actually buy that machine; my father brought it home from work, where he later had this astonishingly baroque installation involving a leased line, two statistical multiplexers and a heap of dumb terminals all hooked up to a SCO UNIX server. It’s the sort of setup which used to require a few grand in specialized hardware, and now requires an internet connection and a machine that can run ssh. There’s a lot of stuff we take for granted nowadays.
I’m a little late to the game, but. . . we had a Commodore 64. We played a teach-you-to-type came based on the movie 9-5 where the boss chased Dolly Parton and every time you made a typing mistake, he got closer to catching her. We also had a Barbie game where you could take her shopping to get her dressed for a date with Ken. Neither of the games seem to have had a lasting effect on me. Except that I’ve been able to type since I was 8 or so.
The first computer I ever used was probably a Commodore 64 back in kindergarten. The first computer I ever owned was a Pentium 75MHz with 8MB of RAM and a 650MB hard drive–back in 1994. More accurately, my parents owned it.
My parents’ first was a Tandy 1000 from Radio Shack.
My first was a Commodore 64. Great game machine back in the day. Good times.
Chalk up another VIC-with-the-cassette-drive here. I used PETs in school, so I was happy to get something from the same company to use at home.
There was a stretch when the largest hard drive I owned was inside the 20-gig iPod.
My first computer was an Apple III with green monochrome monitor, two 5.25″ floppy drives and a daisy-wheel printer. We replaced it with a macintosh with color monitor and a 250 meg hardrive. My daughter actually used that relic while in college.
IBM clone 8088 turbo. (Hah. Turbo.) I believe I received it in 1983 or 1984.
Amber monochrome monitor.
64k of RAM.
1 5.25″ floppy drive.
I installed my own 8087 math co-processor chip and a 40M hard drive.
I had to set the word processor to “wrap” - otherwise I ended up with one-line paragraphs that just disappeared into the ether.
Oh - and first one I ever used was in high school in 1983 - a TRS-80. I took a BASIC class after school.
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I learned to type on a manual typewriter at home, then augmented my skills in a class at school on an electric typewriter. My dad still has that old manual boat anchor.
A Macintosh in 1984. It’s in the basement, and still works, to my knowledge.
the first PC I ever owned was in 1997 and it was a Quantex. no-one even remembers them, it seems!!
My Commodore 64 still works, too–Just played with it last night. Geek is good.
Wow… John Biles and I must be long lost twins or something:
The first computer I used was in the third grade: a teletype hooked up to a mainframe somewhere. To this day, I’m still not sure what was up with that; a single teletype terminal in the library of a northern Iowa elementary school? We took math quizzes on it.Oh, wait, no, since my job has required me to become a computer curmudgeon, let me revise history: back in my day, we had to program in zeroes and ones, and sometimes we didn’t even have ones. I once wrote a database program using only zeroes. [Shamelessly stolen from “Dilbert”]
Oh man, do I feel young and ignorant. My way back when stories only go 1990, when I was in kindergarten. I don’t know what kind of computers we had in elementary school, but I sure do remember a lot of Oregon Trail. My parent’s first computer was in 1995 or so. Ludites, all of us. And I remember seeing the internet for the first time in 1994 or 5 or so, again, at elementary school, and not really getting it.
The first one I had was a Radio Shack thing - this? Maybe. I couldn’t save to the cartridges, so all my BASIC programs had to be enjoyed immediately. And all I had for a “monitor” was an old black-and-white TV set.
NOSTALGIA O’CLOCK, for you BASIC game lovers.
The first computer I ever programmed on was a Sinclair ZX81, closely followed by my school’s TRS-80. My father was one of the first programmers in NZ - he used punch cards.
The first one my family had was a Commie VIC20. others have reflected on the glories of the cassette tapes that it used to offload data to storage . . but I doubt many of their parents subscribed to BYTE when the publication actually published the BASIC text for public domain games and when Orson Scott Card wrote for them. Or got cassettes of public domain and shareware from a monthly subscription service called FOXY.
The first computer that was mine was a 8086 that my dad lovingly refitted with 2 newer 3.5″ floppy disks, and a 20 MB hard disk using some funkified version of DOS. He sent that with me to college - not realizing that Iowa State had tons of public access computers and even so many UNIX/Project Vincent workstations that the campus never adequately used them all.
OK, if you ignore the 7094 that my mother programmed and showed my grade school class how to use once, and the time-shared PDP-8 in high school and the hp-34c, my first personal machine was a sinclair zx81 or whatever it was. First machine I did paying work on was a c64, followed rapidly by a couple of kaypros from the floppy-disk days.
Then 20 years of various macs — it was a sad day a few years back when I finally stopped doing all my professional writing with Word5.1…
Now the live preview on this site is probably faster than screen display on my old Kaypro, but damn I miss it.
Used a TRS-80 at school (I can still program “starfall” in BASIC) and had a first generation Mac at the house. 128k and we upgraded it to 512k ourselves! All my friends had AppleIIe? or c? …can’t remember… and they used those huge floppy disks.
We carted around 3.5″disks and people thought we were strange. Mac had all those graphics-free games where you had to solve a crime or something. There was one that I dimly remember that took place in Sandusky, Ohio. What was it called? Also we played The Ancient Art of War. Bring on the archers!!
Used a TRS-80 at school (I can still program “starfall” in BASIC) and had a first generation Mac at the house. 128k and we upgraded it to 512k ourselves! All my friends had AppleIIe? or c? …can’t remember… and they used those huge floppy disks.
We carted around 3.5″disks and people thought we were strange. Mac had all those graphics-free games where you had to solve a crime or something. There was one that I dimly remember that took place in Sandusky, Ohio. What was it called? Also we played The Ancient Art of War. Bring on the archers!!
I had one of the first Macintosh cubes in Germany–paid the equivalent of $1500 for 256k of memory and 250MB harddrive. Yeah, baby!
Not having to type term papers on the old typewriter any more? Positively shagadelic!
1985 Multi user Altos with 5 slave Z8 processors and a 5MB HD that ran on the M/PM operating system.
Wordstar and Multiplan worked great.
IBM 7070 — 5000 ten-digit decimal (yes, decimal) words of main memory (core), three 7-track 600 bpi tape drives, paper tape, printer. About 10,000 instructions/second. It was the only computer on campus (Brown), had its own building donated by the CEO of IBM, Tom Watson. Code was written in machine language.
Last warning, you kids! Get off my lawn!
First computer I programmed on was a Commodore PET one of the camp counselors brought to my church camp on Lake Winnepesauke in New Hampshire in 1977, then I programmed in Basic on the High School’s DEC PSP11 in ‘78. Oh, and the first computer I bought was a Sinclair ZX80 in 1980, followed by a more “powerful” ZX81 that I had to assemble myself in 1981, and I grabbed a cheap Timex/Sinclair 1000 (basically the same as the ZX81) a year or so later. Not sure why I possibly wanted another one, even though it only cost $35.
Didn’t bother to buy my own PC compatible until 1994. It was an IBM with a ‘486SX2 50 MgHz Before that, various companies I worked for loaned / gave me an AT&T Unix PC, then a 80286, then a ‘386.
Packard Bell, baby! Complete with that weird GUI interface where Windows 3.1 was under a separate “button”. It was the original n00b PC.
Oh, God. I haven’t thought about that computer in years.
Apple //c
The first computer I worked on was a Xerox Sigma 6. That would have been in 1976 at the NY Institute of Technology. It was a pretty cool computer for its day but I think my cell phone is more powerful.
In the early 90’s I was in elementary school still and Mom was dating a computer nerd. He built us a 386 something or other, with sound card and all; ran on Windows 3.0. I got hardcore into computers, and would pick up copies of Computer Shopper mag, and that shit was like fucking porn to me. Heh.
Commodore 128, overrated big sister of the C64.
1986 for me, when I was… 9, I guess. Big year. New car, seasons pass to Expo ‘86, and a new computer. 8088. None of that dual floppy nonesense for us, no-sir! Had a whopping 20MB HDD. I mean, who could possibly ever need 20MB, let alone more than that. CGA graphics, too.
Much more entertaining is the first internet connection. We lived in row houses, and our neighbour four or five doors down ran an ISP out of his basement. We ran an ethernet cable down to his house and had a terminal in my brother’s room. We had broadband before there was a broadband. I’ve been on the internet since… I dunno when. 1990 or so? Never dial-up though. When our neighbour sold his business and moved, they were just starting up cable internet… we just got in on that and have been using cable ever since.
Commodore VIC-20 with a cassette tape. What fun! Later, a C-64 with an actual 5.25″ external floppy! Learned a lot on those two machines…. Still have the C-64 in the closet, and it still works!
Commodore 64, shared with my dad who printed out his thesis on long dot-matrix fan-feed with those tractor strips on the side. Spent hours one summer printing it out for him.
For those of you who (like me, and at least three other people on this thread) miss the TI 99/4A of our childhoods, let me introduce you to Classic99, a truly kick-ass TI-99/4A emulator.
I can’t here “In the Hall of the Mountain King” without thinking that the melody should cut off after a little bit, and switch to a cartoon sound of something falling down a hole, followed by the standard “you’ve been eaten by the Wumpus” music…
The first computer I ever used was a DEC PDP-11/40 running RSX-11M.
That was enough to get me hooked, go out and do lawn-and-yard work service for a year to save up enough and buy my own TRS-80 Model I with 16K RAM and Level II BASIC. Played with BASIC for a few months, then jumped into Z80 Assembly, never looked back.
When I was four, in 1985, my dad bought an Amstrad 8256 with 256k of RAM, a green screen, and no hard drive to speak of. He bought it to write up his uni assignments; we kids used it to play games like Dan Dare, Jet Set Willy and Sabre Wolf. It served us well until 1993, when we got our first IBM compatible running Windows 3.1.
Another TRS-80 Color Computer 2 here. Hooked up to the television. It had a cassette drive. I could program the hell out of that thing, in between rounds of Dungeons of Daggorath. (A-space-L-enter! A-space-L-enter!)
Whoa. Someone else who remembers Dungeons of Daggorath? My parents paid a comparative fortune for the TRS-80 computer. (We were not quite poor, but we didn’t have much spending money. Dad was adamant about saving the money for this, because he thought computers would be important, and he didn’t want us to be afraid of them.)
We also had a Poltergeist game which, when I was about 6 years old, was-at three whole levels-the hardest game in the whole world!