1977 to instant success. The desire to improve software--the "hacker ethic", as described by Levy--became a crucial factor to the emergence of modern modding culture.

Before the development of affordable and more accessible personal computers, the ability to mod games was restricted to where computers at the time were able to be installed, such as university campuses like MIT. With the advent of home computers in the late 1970s to early 1980s, such as the