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This book has popped into my head and I'm desperately trying to remember what it is.

This book must be from the 80s or early 90s - about a games developer who is pretty average and makes 'ok' games. He meets a stranger who has a computer with 'a megabyte' of memory (which for the time is super-advanced and expensive, considered not mass market), who shows him a really awesome game developed on the system.

I'm fuzzy on the details, but it transpires this stranger is somehow the guy's future self. I can't remember how it ends, I want to say the guy has a dream about his future - he meets a girl? But also somehow it's post-apocalyptic and there's been a nuclear war (or something) that the guy may or may not be responsible for somehow.

Edit: I've just remembered that the guy has some kind of problematic or terminal disease. A heart condition? Something that makes him being alive in the future also very unlikely.

Sorry, that's the best I've got. Help!

This book has popped into my head and I'm desperately trying to remember what it is.

This book must be from the 80s or early 90s - about a games developer who is pretty average and makes 'ok' games. He meets a stranger who has a computer with 'a megabyte' of memory (which for the time is super-advanced and expensive, considered not mass market), who shows him a really awesome game developed on the system.

I'm fuzzy on the details, but it transpires this stranger is somehow the guy's future self. I can't remember how it ends, I want to say the guy has a dream about his future - he meets a girl? But also somehow it's post-apocalyptic and there's been a nuclear war (or something) that the guy may or may not be responsible for somehow.

Sorry, that's the best I've got. Help!

This book has popped into my head and I'm desperately trying to remember what it is.

This book must be from the 80s or early 90s - about a games developer who is pretty average and makes 'ok' games. He meets a stranger who has a computer with 'a megabyte' of memory (which for the time is super-advanced and expensive, considered not mass market), who shows him a really awesome game developed on the system.

I'm fuzzy on the details, but it transpires this stranger is somehow the guy's future self. I can't remember how it ends, I want to say the guy has a dream about his future - he meets a girl? But also somehow it's post-apocalyptic and there's been a nuclear war (or something) that the guy may or may not be responsible for somehow.

Edit: I've just remembered that the guy has some kind of problematic or terminal disease. A heart condition? Something that makes him being alive in the future also very unlikely.

Sorry, that's the best I've got. Help!

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A book about a mediocre games developer that goes back in time?

This book has popped into my head and I'm desperately trying to remember what it is.

This book must be from the 80s or early 90s - about a games developer who is pretty average and makes 'ok' games. He meets a stranger who has a computer with 'a megabyte' of memory (which for the time is super-advanced and expensive, considered not mass market), who shows him a really awesome game developed on the system.

I'm fuzzy on the details, but it transpires this stranger is somehow the guy's future self. I can't remember how it ends, I want to say the guy has a dream about his future - he meets a girl? But also somehow it's post-apocalyptic and there's been a nuclear war (or something) that the guy may or may not be responsible for somehow.

Sorry, that's the best I've got. Help!