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So. Old video games. Password systems.
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In some older games, especially in the NES era but also in the early SNES era, there was no save function on the cart
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so instead you had to write down and enter passwords to access game states
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this worked, generally
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until
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Dragon's Lair SNES
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the turbogeniuses behind this nightmare game had an IDEA
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and the idea was
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what if newbie players just get a late game password and use it to skip to the end of the game?
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and their solution to this was
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The system for entering passwords is a level.
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And the passwords for more advanced states are physically harder to enter.
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You can DIE on the password screen.
BattroidBattery
...take that, undertale
fastest mario
fun fact: kusogrande actually has used what they call the "dragons lair password boss" in their gauntlets as recently as two weeks ago
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(this may be how quinn was reminded)
Quinn Angstrom
yeah I'm watching that right now
fastest mario
there are other "password boss" games but dragon's lair may be one of the ones that will actually murder you
fastest mario
one of the only ones*
fastest mario
I believe at one point Dowolff described Hoshi wo Miru Hito's password system as one since it's 40 characters and those characters include:
- all katakana
- all hiragana
- capital roman letters A-Z
- numbers 1-9
- the copyright symbol for some reason
RobotApocalypse
goddamn that is wild
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