Type-in listings were a key part of 8-bit home computer culture, both in Europe and across the pond in the States.
The quality of games varied wildly, but it was always an interesting and satisfying experience to type something in to the computer’s BASIC interpreter, save it to a disk or cassette and have something you could enjoy at any time — just like something you’d bought from a shop.
Here’s an example from the latter days of Atari User magazine; a machine code type-in known asย Maniac Mover. Check it out in the video below, and don’t forget to subscribe on YouTube for more.
MoeGamer 
First thing I thought watching your video was just how smooth the scrolling and movement are – in that respect it’s a really good demonstration on what the 8bit could do. ๐
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Cheers. If I programmed it today I would use more tricks to make all the cars 3 or 4 multi colored instead of the single color. I would also make the cars fractional pixel speeds rather than integer speeds per frame.
But hey I was 15 at the time?!
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More than I was capable of on the humble Atari at the time, that’s for sure! ๐
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