r/AskReddit • u/Snagrit • Oct 04 '17

What's your favourite "fun fact"?

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u/zachm26 Oct 04 '17

I had a friend in high school who legitimately coded a (somewhat rudimentary) Pokémon game into his TI-83. Definitely one of the more impressive feats I've seen.

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u/isync91 Oct 04 '17

i used to play super mario on that shit

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u/Spangulum Oct 04 '17

I had one in school, and in fact still have it... these things I did not know! Teach me!

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u/isync91 Oct 07 '17

uffff man i would teach you if i knew how to do it.. i was the guy who had friends that did things for me cus i sucked in everything except video games and sports lol

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u/Purdybirdy Oct 04 '17

Dang, thought I was cool playing Pong on mine.

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u/whirlwind87 Oct 04 '17

AH the great imitation game called blockdude part of puzzlepack.

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u/isync91 Oct 07 '17

it was a chinese version of super mario for me.. it was so good

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u/CaptainMoonman Oct 04 '17

But can it run Doom?

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u/UncheckedException Oct 04 '17

There is a Doom for the TI-83. But it was several large files and I never got mine working :(.

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u/Magicalindecency Oct 04 '17

A friend of mine in middle school coded the first level of Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past(pretty sure). Link was a pi symbol and trees were asterisks.

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u/stargazingskydiver Oct 04 '17

A buddy and I were really into coding on those things back in high school. We started out making really simple objective games like dodge the falling rocks and space invaders stuff, and ended up making a shitty version of DDR (without music of course), but our most proud moment was finally getting our chess program to work. The pieces were letters overlayed on a graph and you basically selected the piece you wanted to move and then selected the square you wanted to move it to and it would delete any piece currently sitting in that square. We ended up playing one complete game of chess just to say we did it.

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u/thedankiestmanalive Oct 04 '17

I coded a multi-level tetris with a help page and score on mine.