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This is a special one for me. In the 90s, there was a bit of an online community for teenagers like myself who were learning how to code in QBasic. We used to make small DOS games and share them with each other. At first we used services like AOL, and then we moved to dedicated websites. Milo Sedlacek made this game in 1997, and it blew my mind back then. It seems primitive by today's standards, but for hobbyist programmers working with QBasic, this was one of the most impressive games I had seen at the time. Sadly, Milo passed away of leukemia about a year later. Even though the game might seem short and simple now, I wanted to record this video to help document it. It's an important piece of history for the online scene we had back then, and it deserves to be remembered.

You can play the game in a browser here, but you need to use Ctrl+F11 / Ctrl+F12 to adjust the emulation speed until it feels right:
https://archive.org/details/MonoSpace

And here's a tribute website I found about Milo (a.k.a. Gradius):
http://gradius.cx