Retsy Series 1 · Card 0167 · 80-MEM
One typo and the spaceship becomes a rock.
Spending an entire weekend typing a game program printed in a magazine, line by line, into a home computer.
The story · 1984
The magazine promised a thrilling space game if you typed in forty pages of numbers and commands. Dad read the lines aloud while you typed. Sunday night you hit run, and a single square blinked once and froze. Somewhere around line nine hundred, a zero had become the letter O.
Most families saved their typed program to a cassette tape, which made a screechy sound like a robot gargling.
Six finishes
Forty Pages of Code comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.
80-MEM
Forty Pages of Code is one of 32 cards in the 80s Memes & Fads set. Here are the other 31.
