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And your little brother got peanut butter on the manual so your mom threw it away.
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.
Whelp I was today years old when I found out about this…
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
Whelp… that was wild!
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You could do what now?
I am legitimately angry to only be learning this now
Look at it this way. Didn’t you have more fun losing over and over, never completing the game and being stained permanently with that empty feeling of defeat?
It was in the manual
Which button?! Tell me!
Edit: ah, nevermind, someone just did. Sorry for the reaction.
“Dont worry guys I found the solution” aah comment
Wait, what? Which button?
Edit: apparently hitting start + a on the menu screen after you lost your last life.
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.
I don’t understand why they did that. Does anyone know why?
Press start to start playing. Press select to select which mode. Makes sense to me.
Right. But the GUI the user is served has only one possible action, which is leaving that screen. The rest of the buttons were set up to do nothing. “Press any button” style screens make a lot more sense. Although I’d rather be sent to an actual menu immediately when opening a program.
I get what you’re saying and I’m not disagreeing. I’m just trying to view it through a lens of a generation that doesn’t have the accumulated life experiences of operating such screens.
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. 😅
3 lives left.
Super Mario Bros in the NES for me, the excitement if you reach a later level for the first time, only to die and have to try it al over again.
And here’s me replaying some of those and using save states like a mad man
plays Tetris so hard it breaks
Totally not this 80s kid.
I beat DuckTales without getting hit.
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Awoohoo
Mario Bros was the first souls-like
I still maintain that the first Goomba in 1-1 probably has the highest kill count of any single creature in the universe.
laughs in Contra
I think I also hear Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden laughing.
What was annoying about Ninja Gaiden was having to beat it twice to actually beat the game.
The Hyper Tunnel in NES Battletoads is laughing like The Joker
I almost used Contra instead lol
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
It’s impressive because after dropping all those coins into arcade machine he could still afford some smokes.
They were less than a dollar a pack back then.
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.
Damn those rich American kids.
Well, that is Richie Rich we’re looking at.
You just steal those from your mom.
Coins or smokes?
Yes
In my day we played like men!
Also me:
I could complete Robocop and Midnight Resistance though.
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.
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.
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Careful, you’re gonna get sued!
…after he sues Karl Jobs again.
What an absolute legend!
I beat ET as a kid. I just wanted to share that. No cigarette afterparty occurred, though.
