@Nire Basic in the 80s had the advantage of having a lot of builtins for things that nowadays require tons of libraries.

I had a lot of fun just throwing pixels at the screen back then, or making random noises, or whatever. I wouldn't even know how to do that now in Lua (my language of choice nowadays).

Systems/OSes/the world are also more complicated now. I didn't have to worry about multitasking or window environments or network communication back then because they didn't exist.