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by topkekz 3377 days ago
Ocarina of Time is running at 20 FPS on NTSC, 17 FPS on PAL, and is still fun. We started worrying about FPS when competitive online gaming became a thing (Quake 3, Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament) and marketers associated high computer performance with high player performance (more fps you have, more good you will play).