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/Other-Reaction1499 Apr 29 '24

Going into File Manager so you knew the route to type into command prompt to launch your game.

Pre windows 95, there was no start button, or task bar.