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		incanus77 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look ... I recall playing an 80s-ish submarine (WW2?) game with a "spreadsheet mode".

nwellnhof 9 months ago | [–]

Better known as "boss key": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

netsharc 9 months ago | | [–]

Lots of old games have this, I played many MicroProse flight simulators and they all had it.

stevekemp 9 months ago | | [–]

These days even Tinder (website version) has a boss-key.

But yeah I remember a lot of games had boss-keys that would let you pretend to be working.

relwin 9 months ago | [–]

That's probably Gato (1984): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gato_(video_game)

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