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We coded for weeks and spent several late, late nights cutting code and optimizing code to get it to fit into the Mini Memory. Eventually, we did. I remember calling my parents at 4:00 am because I was so excited that we had finished it. We submitted to TI and they accepted it as a Class A submission. They liked the game so much, though, that they asked us to add more to it because they wanted to produce a standalone cartridge of the game. So, we added title screens, two players, more levels, a surprise level, etc. Hopper was produced and released just before TI announced they were killing the computer and both Mike and I received royalty payments for about a year and a half.
===[[D-Station I]] and [[D-Station II|II]]===
I started developing a friendship with Charlie La Fara, who was the president of the IUG. I developed some Extended Basic games for his IUG. He created a contest for the best software submission and, over a weekend, I converted an Extended Basic game I had developed in college to Assembly language. He flew me to Oklahoma City and I showed him the game. It won his contest easily and he said, "let's make a buck on this." He wanted to produce his own cartridge, so I had to get permission from TI to release the code. I renamed the game "Bomb the Aeroflot," which was a political hotspot over the Russian shooting of a passenger plane and submitted the game to TI. They rejected the submission due to its political nature and I submitted it to Charlie as [[D-Station I|D-Station]]. A few months later, I enhanced the game and created [[D-Station IID-Station II]].
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