Excel spreadsheets turned into video game (bbc.co.uk)

This is very interesting as it reminds me of my youth (and probably also the experiences of other people): After the obligatory QBASIC dabbling, my first experiences as a child with GUI design and programming was through macros and the VBA Editor of MS Office, which, at the time, had a good offline help system. Albeit not having any formal knowledge, creating some simple (mostly text-based and excel-cell-based) RPGs was possible thanks to that.

Shame he has not made the code openly available.

Also, I wonder what dependencies are required so that it does not work on Excel 2003?