First post, by xjas
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Just idly curious; I'm not even sure where to start looking for something like this. Thought it'd be an interesting topic for discussion.
I'm guessing this would be a PC game (Apple II, PET, TRS-80, VIC-20...) rather than console or arcade, thanks to magnetic storage and the fact that most people who bought PCs back in the '70s/'80s were tinkerers already. To narrow it down, maybe it makes sense to define the question as a mod created for a game that was being sold, by someone who bought the game to play it but had no connection to the developers. ROM hacks of arcade games intended to be run on machines for profit are kind of a different thing, IMHO.
By the mid-'80s, games with built in editors (Ultimate Wizard) or even full creation engines (Pinball Construction Set) were common, so it'd probably be well before then.
Here's hoping the answer to this hasn't been lost to history. Anyone have some suggestions? Know some really early community levels or mods I should look at?
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