Security Theater

When I was 11 years old, writing TI BASIC on my TI-99/4A, I had this idea that I wanted to be able to hide my code. I had invented this scenario where someone might break into my room and load my boring (but coded by me) games from the cassette tape they were saved on. I needed to secure my code, but how? I knew PRINT statements could write to the command line for a user to read something and I…