... That game is fantastic. Chip Shot, amazing, probably the best golf game of the 1980s. Very good. Yeah. Yeah, we heard the story from someone I forget who it was. But I think the basketball, what was the basketball one? Oh, was it just slam dunk slam? Yeah, but there was like, there were groups in like some Chicago or some other place that had formed tournaments, you know, with other friends playing slam dunk. Do you remember this, Tom? Yeah, no, Steve Edinger, who programmed that I might have been St. Louis, I'd…
which I will say, in the computer entertainer newsletter, had a higher rating than Legend of Zelda, like they came out about the same time and were reviewed in the same issue in that the reviewers like chip shot more. But anyway, he, he said in an interview, like I think last year that he didn't really use any existing like PJ golf code for that. He basically built it from the ground up him and Dave Warhol and Connie Goldman because they were big fans of golf games. So like there were a few of them. But yeah,…
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... right? I want to say the last half dozen or so games were like, fully original, like they didn't use any existing code because I remember Steve Edinger, he was talking about chip shot, which I will say, in the computer entertainer newsletter, had a higher rating than Legend of Zelda, like they came out about the same time and were reviewed in the same issue in that the reviewers like chip shot more. But anyway, he, he said in an interview, like I think last year that he didn't really use any existing like PJ golf code for that. He basically built it from the ground up him and Dave Warhol and Connie Goldman because they were big fans of golf games. So like there were a few of them. But yeah, that one was done from scratch. There were a couple. There was like commando port, you know what I mean? There were like some games that came out and diner and stuff like that. So there definitely were some games that were. But yeah, but Tom's right. There was a lot of, there was a lot of material that was coming for you. The diner, ...