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Why are younger generations embracing the retro game revival? (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] any1th3r3@lemmy.ca 30 points 8 months ago

That's mostly true, except for games made specifically harder so that you'd have to rent them multiple times (eg: ActRaiser 2 NTSC-U/C / SNES is much harder than its NTSC-J / SFC counterpart).

[-] teft@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

games made specifically harder so that you’d have to rent them multiple times

Fucking BattleToads

[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago
[-] nugget359@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I didn't know they artificially ramped up the difficulty! That game had a reputation when we were kids! Thanks for sharing

[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yep. Buncha bastards.

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