From the original article on him finding the source code:
Yesterday he found it, and the discovery is all thanks to his father. The three packs of 3.5″ Apple ProDOS disks had been safely stored away in a brown box along with a load of Amstrad copies of his 1984 game Karateka.
And from your link, in the first excerpt from his Journal from 1985:
Dad called. Billboard’s top-ranked program for this week is, indeed, Karateka.
Karateka was truly awesome. Those were truly the days; good games really amazed with their originality and game play.not course there was nothing to compare to but it was magical as a kid. Wonder if my kids will feel the same about FPS?
In the early days of anything almost everything is original simply because there was nothing to do compare it to. Karateka and Prince of Persia were innovative.
Yesterday he found it, and the discovery is all thanks to his father. The three packs of 3.5″ Apple ProDOS disks had been safely stored away in a brown box along with a load of Amstrad copies of his 1984 game Karateka.
And from your link, in the first excerpt from his Journal from 1985:
Dad called. Billboard’s top-ranked program for this week is, indeed, Karateka.
I thought that was a funny coincidence. :)