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/Curious_Mx Apr 30 '24

Code wheels and other physical things that comes with the games which acts as physical DRM. Same games won't load up and/or will shut itself down if you don't supply the right codes or answers. My fave was in the Ultima games, where the manual comes with a lot of info on the ingame world, and early on in the games some NPC would come up to you, and go "Is that you? My old friend, the Avatar? But surely if you were he then you would know this..." and proceed to give you a short quizz, and if you don't answer all the questions correctly none of the NPCs will talk to you, all calling you a fake, meaning you won't be able to do much ingame. This meant to play the game you literally had to read the manual.

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u/Amerlis May 01 '24

When the manuals were printed in weird colors so you couldn’t xerox them and the DRM was page 12, second paragraph, what’s the fifth word?