If only ASCII art was available, then Windows 95 itself wouldn’t have been possible, being a graphical OS. Games in the 70s and 80s had non-ascii graphics.
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NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 7 months agoYes there absolutely was, probably actually before windows 95. But even in 95 there were a lot of crappy ascii art games bcz there wasn’t anything better technologically, so nobody would actually call it crappy.
lunarul@lemmy.world 7 months ago
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 7 months ago
[deleted]jerkface@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
You’re seriously losing the plot.
lunarul@lemmy.world 7 months ago
developed on windows 95 when only ascii art was available
Nowhere did I ever imply that ascii art was the only thing available
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 months ago
in 95 there were a lot of crappy ascii art games bcz there wasn’t anything better technologically
i mean i still have my old 3.5 and 5.25 floppy collection of sierra games published in DOS, pre-windows (since you obviously weren’t around then), that doesn’t use any ascii art. you’re the one throwing out wild anachronisms to make a point you don’t have.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Graphical video games predate ASCII.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
windows 3.1 was first widespread used version of windows. But DOS games still had graphics. Nethack is a great game that is simple enough to learn, but you have to die 1000 times to actually learn.