• Kite@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I beat ET as a kid. I just wanted to share that. No cigarette afterparty occurred, though.

  • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Treasure Island Dizzy only had a single life. One of my earliest memories is of my sister losing her shit as she accidentally dropped the snorkel while she was cycling through her inventory underwater.

    • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Holy crap I totally forgot that game existed. Me and my best friend were obsessed with it, drawn 3 tomes (yes, tomes) of comics about its characters.

  • Monstrosity@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is bullshit.

    I was there and we sure as fuck didn’t use pussy ass filters until we were old enough to understand the health benefits.

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The tough ones, especially. OG NES TMNT conqueror here (as you can tell it’s still in my list of life achievements).

      • psycho_driver@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        You’re totally right and its one that I never beat. I haven’t gone through it with an emulator either. There are some games I have since gone through with an emulator using save states that I didn’t beat legitimately back in the day, like Castlevania, that I recognize would have been HAF to beat without assists. I still may try Battletoads the old fashioned way because I have a lot of respect for that game. I’m pretty sure if I or one of my friends had owned the game we would have beaten it, but we never managed to over the course of several rentals.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    In my day we played like men!

    Also me:

    I could complete Robocop and Midnight Resistance though.

    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’m going to pretend you only used that for the pause feature and taking screenshots. Otherwise, we’re going to have a problem.

      – Video Game Police

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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        4 months ago

        The best feature was being able to back the entire memory up to disk so I wouldn’t have to wait ten minutes to load it from tape.

        Even with infinite lives, half these games were close to impossible to beat.

    • addie@feddit.ukEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Well, there’s your problem. You’ve plugged a Romantic Robot into the place where your Kempston joystick should be. Never going to win at Daley Thompson’s without perfecting your waggle. Also, the Speccy will probably crash from hammering the keyboard if you try.

      Midnight Resistance is one of those weird games where the first level is the hardest; it’s not too bad to finish it if you do the first bit. Fair play on Robocop, though - that’s a hard game.

  • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Once Inwas bored and started playing Contra, without the Konami Code. On a NES.

    Its one of those games that just loops when you finish it.

    I finally stopped a few hours later after like the 4th or 5th loop.

    Another fun one was finishing GTA3 100% on PS2, without saving or dying or getting arrested

  • statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I was in my mid 30s when I found out that you could hold some button when continuing after game over in Super Mario Bros to continue in the world you died.

    We just got gud and abused the turtle shell stair 1up.

    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I watched a video recently about tool assisted Speedruns which actually educated me on why this worked. An issue with the sound card and the way user input was handled allowed certain button combinations to cause Random Code Execution. It’s actually possible to beat one of the Mario games (can’t remember the name right this second) on the first frame using this method, but it requires a ridiculous amount of inputs

    • selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Which button?! Tell me!

      Edit: ah, nevermind, someone just did. Sorry for the reaction.

    • Maestro@fedia.io
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      4 months ago

      Wait, what? Which button?

      Edit: apparently hitting start + a on the menu screen after you lost your last life.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Hold A while you press Start instead of just pressing Start. This is one of those old games that actually required pressing Start to begin lol.

    • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      4 months ago

      After completing the game, when you’re sent back to the title screen, you can also press B to select which world to start on. The World 1-1 in the HUD changes, then you have to do the continue trick - hold A and press Start.

      I can finish the game on one life without warps, but I’ve never once been able to get the 1ups from a Koopa shell.

      Edit: Another fun one is to play a bit of Tennis, eject the cart and insert SMB without powering off the system, then reset and do the continue trick. Tennis changes the memory value that SMB uses to tell which world you are continuing on, so you can play “weird worlds” like 63-1 that are generated from non-level data. Reset doesn’t clear all RAM. 😅

  • misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It’s impressive because after dropping all those coins into arcade machine he could still afford some smokes.

  • Thorry84@feddit.nlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    And your little brother got peanut butter on the manual so your mom threw it away.