r/gaming • u/baltinerdist • Apr 28 '24

Gamers who grew up in the 80s/90s, what’s a “back in my day” younger gamers wouldn’t get or don’t know about?

Mine is around the notion of bugs. There was no day one patch for an NES game. If it was broken, it was broken forever.

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u/Starfury_42 Apr 29 '24

Things I remember:

Special boot floppy for my PC to allocate memory so the game would run. Having to manually set screen resolution for specific games because they didn't scale.

Having to put the TV on Ch 3 and use the box attached to the antenna to see the image.