Awesome! Stumbling on QBasic Gorillas was my first programming experience, too!
I had an extremely similar experience, right down to the ages. My father's coworker hooked me up with Visual Basic when I was nine, and I also made a tile-based RPG, although I think I had the keyboard working. I even had multiplayer---you would select a text file on the other computer over a network share, and you would both read/write your coordinates there. It actually worked most of the time!
And then Borland C++, and up, and up :) Great memories!
I had an extremely similar experience, right down to the ages. My father's coworker hooked me up with Visual Basic when I was nine, and I also made a tile-based RPG, although I think I had the keyboard working. I even had multiplayer---you would select a text file on the other computer over a network share, and you would both read/write your coordinates there. It actually worked most of the time!
And then Borland C++, and up, and up :) Great memories!