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by Qwertystop 2531 days ago
One good example of this: Space Invaders was, AFAIK, the first game to feature escalating difficulty over time (because the aliens speed up the more of them you shoot). This wasn't originally part of the design; the system just couldn't run at the same framerate while managing 30 sprites as it could at 5, and there weren't any enforced timing checks.