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During the homebrew scene, before the commercial PC revolution, there were kits; if you're crazy enough, you can build this same one even now.
I can't be the only one who spent hours reading gorilla.bas, hoping it would somehow teach me how to make games, but I can't imagine having to flip switches just to get your programs in. That's probably something to keep in mind the next time I'm complaining that Visual Studio takes two hours to update.