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520@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Kinda. Publishers often found arcade difficulty spikes useful in home console games because it would mask how little content there was. Super Mario Bros could be beaten in an hour or two by most people if the lives system didn't send you all the way back to the beginning of the game when you ran out.

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teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I remember buying a book with the secrets of Super Mario Bros (and other NES) games typed backwards so you had to use a mirror to know how to warp from 1-2 to 4-2 to get to 8-1.

I doubt I’d have finished…but I’ve got a TG-16 I can’t beat anything on.

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- PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I still have my Nintendo power guide book for all the super Mario Bros, The legend of Zelda 1, link, all the mega Man games… And a few others. I also have two original NES systems, a super Nintendo, N64, PS2, and a Wii.
  
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- 520@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh yeah! Forgot about that stuff lol
  
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