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I assume you mean Conway's game of life.
Yes of course. That and we tried variations of the rule-set. We also discovered the flyer.
It is interesting what can come out of this seed. When I later had an Atari I wrote an optimized simulator in assembly which aggregated over multiple cells and I even tried to use the blitter reducing the number of clock cycles per cell as far as I could. This seed become a part of the mosaic of concepts that sits behind understanding complex processes now.