/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7999913
What they SHOULD have done is used cassettes as primitive memory cards. It would have been better than using passwords, at least. If you only encoded like <= 64 bytes per save it would have been fast enough.

There were mentions in the Zelda thread how the 80s in the era before the internet was a different world and gaming secrets relied alot on word of mouth, I grew up then and can testify to that.

What were some secrets or rumors you heard as a kid, true or not? I heard about the Justin Bailey Metroid code through a kid at school, I thought it was BS at first but turned out to be true when I got home and typed the letters. Also remember someone saying there was a boss code for Street Fighter 2 but it wasn't real, I was so naive I even believed if the boss code was found the TV news would cover it, kek.