A guy I went to school with got a game published in Compute! magazine in the late 90’s (and got a $500 payday or something wild).
These were the days were the code was printed in the magazine and you had to manually enter it to play the game. (I still remember my Grade Six Teacher, Mr. Quelch, doing that for us which was awesome!)
I’m somewhat techie (heavily techie by librarian standards!) but I often wonder how my life might be different if I’d followed the same path as so many of my nerdy friends, 90% of whom have ended up working with computers/programming/IT in some way.). I’d probably have more money and less social skills! 😉
A retro gaming channel found my buddy’s game and played it – still pretty cool after all these years…