/vr/ - Retro Games

I played this game again for the first time in 25 years.
Holy shit, now I understand why people like Mario so much. I didn't remember it being this good, and it's a game from 1985, this shit is crazy.
How did they tune up those controls and physics like that? This is beyond anything else that was on either home systems OR arcades.

No he's fucking not.
Look at that sprite angle, that's not even possible in-game. Look at those lines, depicting speed, hmm, what could this be suggesting. Why yes, it's suggesting that the fucking game has a hidden fucking mechanic that allows you to wall jump.
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This, more or less. People came from playing 3 fps ports of Pitfall and now suddenly they had this suspicious looking guy wearing overalls being able to run and perform weird acrobatics. A level like 8-4 was literally hell. It's fun to go through it like it's nothing now.