10 Broken Video Games That Were Fixed YEARS Later
9. Arctic Adventure
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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.