10 Broken Video Games That Were Fixed YEARS Later

You probably haven't heard of the 1981 text adventure game Arctic Adventure, but that doesn't make this incredible slice of gaming history any less fascinating.

In 1981, teenager Harry McCracken - now the technology editor for business magazine Fast Company - released the game for TRS-80 microcomputers, as part of a published collection, "The Captain ‘80 Book of Basic Adventures."

However, the BASIC code of McCracken's game featured in the book - which players had to input themselves in order to play - was incorrect, meaning the game wouldn't run properly.

But because McCracken didn't keep a copy of the code for himself, he was unable to easily correct it, and so moved onto other things.

Four decades later, however, he received a copy of the original book and used a TRS-80 emulator to resurrect his malfunctioning code.

He discovered that there was a missing "o" in the code which prevented players from using in-game objects and finishing the game.

Though McCracken is unsure whether he caused the typo himself or it was a printing error, he's since included the corrected version of the game on his own website for all to savour. Talk about a happy - if belated - ending.