[VSpike]

I was talking to a friend recently about the hours spent playing these games, and how we'd tape or glue pieces of graph paper together to make large hand-drawn maps of the games. I wish I still had those! I have so much love for those games, and so many good memories of them. Also, I loaded them up in an emulator recently and I'd forgotten how hard they are! No save games, very limited lives, so many ways to die, so much skill needed to get jumps and moves just right, and often no time to think. And when you die, you lose everything.

[sshagent]

Yeah, games get more brutal the further we go back. Never had microtransactions in my day, bah! I say spending a lot of my childhood money in Arcade machines haha. Which are equally brutal in giving you maybe 1 minute of game play for your coin