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Today I discovered an absolute gem from the past.
If you were around in 1984 you might have been super awesome and played core wars.
Core Wars is a programming game in which two or more programs run in a simulated computer with the goal of terminating every other program and surviving as long as possible. Known as Warriors, these programs are are written in an assembly language called Redcode.
Basically it's Counter-Strike/COD for programmers where you can fight in a team team, as a free-for-all, or one-vs-one.
What other cool things from the past might us youngun programmers have missed or not have an appreciation of?
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(Score: 1) by Gertlex on Friday October 24 2014, @08:36PM
Going in a different direction than the summary prompts, these sort of competitive programs appear occasionally on codegolf.stackexchange.com. I wish I had sufficient mental resources to play such coding challenges and still work on work and my own projects...
E.g.:
http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/34968/caveman-duels-or-me-poke-you-with-sharp-stick [stackexchange.com]
http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/25347/survival-game-create-your-wolf [stackexchange.com]
http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/39829/cops-and-robbers-regex-golf [stackexchange.com]
http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/35079/the-rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock-tournament-of-epicness [stackexchange.com]