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by PakG1 2663 days ago
At that point, they were insiders or even employees, not final customers, no? Games were released onto cartridges that couldn't be updated once the cartridges were manufactured and in the customer's hands.
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Insiders if you will, studios would get the kids into a room to play test ongoing development.

It wasn't always the same group of kids.