Bill Gates's original PC game now on iPhone
Donkey, or more properly DONKEY.BAS, was computer game co-written by Bill Gates in 1981. It was included in early versions of the PC-DOS operating system and had players drive a car down a street while avoiding donkeys. Why there were so many donkeys on the road is a mystery.
Today, Donkey is available for the iPhone. It's a fun example of an 8-bit game with chunky graphics and super simple action. Tap to change lanes.
Take it from an old fogie: Donkey is fun and worth US$0.99. You wouldn't have your precious Zelda without it.
[Via Gizmodo]
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Donkey, or more properly DONKEY.BAS, was computer game co-written by Bill Gates in 1981. It was included in early versions of the PC-DOS...
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February 11 2012 at 2:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyActually DONKEY.BAS is copyright by IBM. Bill Gates and Neil Konzen of Microsoft wrote the game FOR IBM.
February 14 2012 at 11:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate downI remember Donkey.BAS on my MS-DOS 5 and 6 computers, and instead of a driving game, it was two moneys throwing bananas at each other, like Dome Wars. It was a lot of fun.
February 10 2012 at 4:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDon't you mean QBasic ,which had Gorilla and Nibbles? Donkey has always been Donkey :)
February 11 2012 at 2:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYou're talking about gorilla.bas. The bananas were thrown by gorillas.
February 11 2012 at 2:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI wonder if Uncle Bill will get any money from this?
February 10 2012 at 4:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI am absolutely certain we would still have every Nintendo game in existence, whether this game was ever made or not.
February 10 2012 at 3:49 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyI find it fascinating that at one point in time this is what the richest man in the world was working on.
February 10 2012 at 3:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'm not exactly sure how a DOS game made by an American company had any bearing on the development of a completely different type of game by a Japanese company a few years later...
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