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It's fascinating how flawed the #games we played as kids were; #programming was primitive, and they couldn't do updates.

In #SuperMarioBros3 the card matching mini-game only has 8 different layouts because of a bug in the shuffling #algorithm

https://youtu.be/QGeLzCmUDDk?si=nwfDRrkCLYgPkUZ_

#nes #nintendo #gaming #videoGames #mario #marioBros #superMarioBros #programming #software #bugs @gaming

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[–] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't put hyperlinks in the title, it just types out all the formatting. Also, idk about fascinating.

[–] EccTM@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

they're a mastodon account @ tagging lemmy communities as a hashtag. It's not exactly their fault the title is borked, because they're submitting from a different platform.

[–] savaran@hachyderm.io 2 points 1 year ago

@schizanon @gaming That’s part of why I’m always surprised at how much people will rail on bugs in games now. I mean sure if a bug makes a game literally impossible to complete, rail away. But half the stuff people complain about are things that when I was a kid would have been treated as hilarious quirks and possibly things vital to the ability to speed run the games.