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Benj Edwards should be a household name to pretty much anyone involved in retrocomputing of any form.

As a journalist and tech historian, he's always devoted to various retrocomputing topics, and in January it was all about gorillas. 🦍

So rather less the furry musclemen and rather more one of the most widely used BASIC games of all time. How come? 

GORILLA.BAS was part of QBasic, and has improved / worsened the computer science classes in quite some schools worldwide. Depends on your point of view, I guess. 😁

The story is more a piece of nostalgia and history. But if you can remember two gorillas on top of skyscrapers, flying bananas and the fun that comes with the game, then the reading time is certainly not wasted.

Thanks for the reminder Benj!