When BASIC was at the top, do you agree?

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Hi wonderful QB64pe community!
The time runs as its nature, and today I'm lucky to get some time to make this thread.

The question is towards any experienced BASIC coder that want to remember old good days.




Is there another gold time for BASIC?

Fine to meet you today QB64's friends.

My intro to computers was in middle school, where there was a room with a few TRS-80 computers - Model Is and IIIs, all with monochrome screens and cassette recorders for storage (I think the IIIs had 5.25" floppy drives, but we never used 'em). There was also a single Franklin Ace 1000 that could actually display COLOR! 

We played a couple Scott Adams text adventures and learned very rudimentary BASIC programs. When I learned the INPUT command and IF/THEN and GOTO, I made a text adventure called Bus Stop where you just picked a direction to walk and it randomly either told you you made it onto the school bus, or else you stepped in dog shit or got hit by a car. It was barely a game, but it opened the doors to a lot of creativity.