To be fair on PC older games very often got expansion disks. On top of that people with nostalgia tend to forget a lot of games used to release with game breaking glitches and just never get updated because that wasn’t possible.
What i really hated about that was, that you never really knew if it was a bug that got you stuck or the game is just incomprehensible. I’m looking at you, Simon’s quest.
The spanish version of the first Digimon World was literally unplayable lmao, the game had a glitch with an Agumon NPC that is a softlock and makes impossible to continue from that point
German Version Too, expect you played it in a specific order…
But to defend old games (aka when Nintendo didn’t sucked): when you wanted to release a game on a Nintendo console, you had to send a tape with the full gameplay from start to finish without cheats, otherwise it wouldn’t be released.
The example being Sonic and Knuckles specifically is relevant, because despite being released and marketed as an expansion, that content was originally supposed to be part of Sonic 3 but was cut due to deadlines and development time.
To be fair on PC older games very often got expansion disks. On top of that people with nostalgia tend to forget a lot of games used to release with game breaking glitches and just never get updated because that wasn’t possible.
What i really hated about that was, that you never really knew if it was a bug that got you stuck or the game is just incomprehensible. I’m looking at you, Simon’s quest.
The spanish version of the first Digimon World was literally unplayable lmao, the game had a glitch with an Agumon NPC that is a softlock and makes impossible to continue from that point
German Version Too, expect you played it in a specific order…
But to defend old games (aka when Nintendo didn’t sucked): when you wanted to release a game on a Nintendo console, you had to send a tape with the full gameplay from start to finish without cheats, otherwise it wouldn’t be released.
The example being Sonic and Knuckles specifically is relevant, because despite being released and marketed as an expansion, that content was originally supposed to be part of Sonic 3 but was cut due to deadlines and development time.
Or you had game magazines :D I remember buying one specific magazine to get the patch for half life :D