Microsoft highlights Lemonade Stand, a refreshing return of the 1979 Apple II classic game

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Published onJune 21, 2017

published onJune 21, 2017

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Everyone seems to be feeling the heat lately, including Microsoft. The tech giant stationed in Washington felt that it was time for a cool refreshing blast from the past today, highlighting one of the most nostalgic video games of all timein their latest MSDN post: Lemonade Stand.

Ah, the good old days when a child could set up a lemonade stand in the middle of the scorching Summer days without needing a vendor and health permit. If you’re a young whippersnapper, then you might not know what the famous text based video game is. Lemonade Stand is pretty much what you get by the title, a business simulation developed for education by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium in 1973. Players would need to make decisions based on weather reports, projected income, and determining the cost and how much lemonade to make for the day.

Lemonade Stand was a success, picked up and ported to Apple II in 1979. As of the next year, it was shipping with Apple computers and was even available for Atari 8-bit computers. Remember those?

Today, you canplay the game for freeon Windows or Mac. Furthermore, the files have been made open-source and available for download. InRaymond Chen’s blog post, he actually picked apart the game’s formulas in an attempt to better understand what made it tick. But we won’t spoil the findings for you just in case you want to figure it out for yourself.

It’s nice to see these classics still exist, and Microsoft’sgoal to celebrate all games including those forgottenis a statement that many older gamers can get behind. Even if it’s simply highlighting them in a blog post.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.

Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.

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