When we bought our first ever computer, an Amstrad 464, back in the eighties, there was a fabulous adventure game called 'Rigel's Revenge', which was mostly typed narrative, but quite complicated! We spent hours on it, until one day, we saw the answer in the form of several pages of narrative, which I dutifully typed in to get the result - it took me ages!
Back then, you loaded the computer via a cassette, then the programme afterwards, but when you turned off the machine, you lost all the work you'd done, as there was no internal memory...
Guess what...
Yup, a daughter did just that!
But 'The Devil's Crown' was fantastic, so was 'Fruit Machine' and a PC version of 'Trivial Pursuit'! I even bought a music composer which was rather like a very basic version of Garage Band! You could even write your own stuff using 'Basic' programme language, and I really was hooked on that particular job!
Happy days!