While driving the roads of New Mexico, California, or even Eastern Europe, you may find your way blocked by a pace of donkeys. The question is whether Bill Gates had such an experience. Odd question, you say? Well, what else would cause someone to write
DONKEY.BAS? Perhaps that question will never be answered. We do know, however, that Gates's game inspired a
tiny tribute for the IBM PC's 35th anniversary
:
Sorry Ass. Now you can experience the thrill of swerving to avoid tens of donkeys on your very own x86 PC. It being a PC booter, the operating system is optional! Just write the disk image to a blank floppy you have sitting around and--what do you mean,
What's a floppy?
? No time to explain, there are only minutes of 2021-04-01 left in YouTube's time zone. Just watch this glorious encode:
High-quality headphones are a must to properly enjoy the soundtrack.
Samsara: not the first time i've said that today
Samsara:
thinking emoji Passing over to feos.
feos: This game is an autoscroller, so you reach the end at the same time as long as you switch the lanes on time. You move upwards a little bit after every new donkey/ass that you dodge, which leaves you a little less time to react to the next one, but it resets after each new point you score. So across all levels, the difficulty isn't increasing. And it's basically a timed game. So it's too trivial of a game, and too BASIC to even speedrun.
Additionally, it's a somewhat obscure port, compared to the original game, and it's inferior because it doesn't have the windows informing you that "Donkey loses!", and about the game end after 10 points. But even the original game won't be acceptable due to the same gameplay problems.
Rejecting.
