We had the original NES in our house as soon as it came out. Like any child of the 80s, I was obsessed. To the point that I needed to understand how video games were made. Through a little library research, I learned that computers came with an application for writing and running code in the Basic language. We had a computer. I ran Basic, and hit the F1 key, and never looked back. By age ten, I had decided I would become a video game programmer one day.