So. Old video games. Password systems.

In some older games, especially in the NES era but also in the early SNES era, there was no save function on the cart

so instead you had to write down and enter passwords to access game states

this worked, generally

until

Dragon's Lair SNES

the turbogeniuses behind this nightmare game had an IDEA

and the idea was

what if newbie players just get a late game password and use it to skip to the end of the game?

and their solution to this was

Dragon's Lair SNES password

behold.

The system for entering passwords is a level.

And the passwords for more advanced states are physically harder to enter.

You can DIE on the password screen.

...take that, undertale

fun fact: kusogrande actually has used what they call the "dragons lair password boss" in their gauntlets as recently as two weeks ago

(this may be how quinn was reminded)

yeah I'm watching that right now

there are other "password boss" games but dragon's lair may be one of the ones that will actually murder you

one of the only ones*

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

goddamn that is wild