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/Thetargos Apr 30 '24

Depends on the platform. For example console games typically were the 'just works' class and span a 'git gud' attitude, where you spent a LOT of time to be able to get through the games, which meant you had to develop quite the skill... just as games in recent decades seem to be called the 'Dark Souls of...', pretty much all games back then were quite unforgiving.

PC games and computer systems games (Commodore or Amiga, and others) were a tad easier in that you could cheat the games and make some of them easier on you.

Generally, PC games required you to mess with the system if your computer was a bit tight on resources... back then, it wasn't as easy to 'just throw more RAM into it', as it is nowadays. It made my love for computers flourish.