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It should go without saying that donkeys are, without a doubt, the biggest threat to anyone behind the wheel. Or, at least they are in a 1981 DOS game — created by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen — to demonstrate the power of the IBM PC and the BASIC programming language. Donkey, often referred to as its filename ‘DONKEY.BAS’, is a mostly forgotten computer game that sees the player strapped into a car racing down a pixelated highway littered with donkeys. The goal is simple: don’t hit one. Simple in nature, the game’s frustratingly difficult to play. A timing game — like a harder…

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