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In my day we played like men!
Also me:
I could complete Robocop and Midnight Resistance though.
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
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.
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.
And here’s me replaying some of those and using save states like a mad man
And your little brother got peanut butter on the manual so your mom threw it away.
It’s impressive because after dropping all those coins into arcade machine he could still afford some smokes.
You just steal those from your mom.
Coins or smokes?
Yes
They were less than a dollar a pack back then.
Damn those rich American kids.
Well, that is Richie Rich we’re looking at.
In the UK some shops would sell you a single cigarette for less the ten of our new pennies. Around '86 I think.
The big kid who had a little bit of moustache would buy a pack of 20 for about 2 quid from the corner shop next to the school and would sell them for 20p each to the other kids.
This was me after finishing Majora’s Mask 100%.
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.
Wouldn’t this depend on your source? If you’re raiding the parents’ packs and they have filters so do you. Lots of wannabe badass underage friends smoking their mom’s Virginia Slims in my time
My first smoke was one of my mom’s Virginia Slims.
Just buy them from the vending machine.
and a swig of Maddog 20/20 was also in order. Or some Night Train Express if one of your buds was already in their 30s.
I have ridden the Night Train. I have looked the Devil in the eye.
I have not-so-fond memories of pink grapefruit Maddog…
With MD 20/20 you either have shitty memories or none at all
Totally not this 80s kid.
plays Tetris so hard it breaks
Beating Rayman 1 on the PS1 be like
That’s not even that hard and it does have saves
I dunno, getting every cage is pretty gruelling, and you can’t beat the game unless you do EVERYTHING.
That being said, if you genuinely don’t think it’s “even that hard”, then you’re definitely on another level, and I salute you
3 lives left.
Mario Bros was the first souls-like
laughs in Contra
I think I also hear Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden laughing.
The Hyper Tunnel in NES Battletoads is laughing like The Joker
I almost used Contra instead lol
I still maintain that the first Goomba in 1-1 probably has the highest kill count of any single creature in the universe.
I beat ET as a kid. I just wanted to share that. No cigarette afterparty occurred, though.
The tough ones, especially. OG NES TMNT conqueror here (as you can tell it’s still in my list of life achievements).
Battletoads was the badge of honor
That game is hard to beat even with a fucking game genie, it’s insane.
I still have Turbo Tunnel PTSD
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.
I got past the water level once…
I beat DuckTales without getting hit.
Awoohoo
