hahaha, that is so fucking boss. Would have been even better if it was some massive war game but still. "Well, general, you need to watch your mana, ffs."

That's awesome tho. I had a similar run, just slightly earlier - it was a little deprecated even when I got it, but I think it was Christmas 1988 when we got the Commodore 64. My mom's friend's son claimed he was hacking shit straight from the game companies - be it true or no, I would still get 5 1/4" disks with 8 games at a throw, give or take. Then I missed out on a lot of DOS into early Winders until somewhere around Gabriel Knight.