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Bennett Foddy first encountered games on a ZX Spectrum at the age of five, an experience that made him "ravenous for games on all platforms". Graduating to the Commodore Amiga, Foddy eventually encountered PC gaming through getting lost in Zork on a loaner computer brought home by his parents from work, and playing NetHack with his sister. "My sister had printed out all the game FAQs on dot matrix paper," he says. "That was a formative gaming experience for me."
In 2006, while pursuing a career in academia, Foddy began teaching himself programming. Two years later he released Read Entire Article
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