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Ooooh wow, this made me remember Rails (Across America?) game with the questions you had to look through the manual about which train it was they showed on scre
by brobdingnagians 8y ago
Ooooh wow, this made me remember Rails (Across America?) game with the questions you had to look through the manual about which train it was they showed on screen. If you guessed it wrong a couple times it would lock you out; we lost the manual pretty quickly, so every time we wanted to play we had to try to guess what the trains were.
- giobox 8y agoHa, I have fond memories of abusing school photocopiers to share these things, which I think is probably why some developers adopted the red acetate trick to obfuscate the answers to the copy protection questions. Color photocopying was obviously very significantly harder to come by back then, a B&W copy wouldn't work with the red lens. The design of the code wheels for those games that had them was often surprisingly elaborate as well.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoLHX Attack Chopper had a similar thing where you had to look up combat vehicle stats. Fortunately, if you kept restarting you would pretty quickly get something like "How many wheels does X armored car have?", which even a 12-year-old should be able to get in 3 guesses.
- hakfoo 8y agoSid Meier's Railroad Tycoon did the same thing, except if you didn't correctly identify the ocomotive, it just dropped the game into a limp mode so you could still trial the experience without the manual. And also it didn't hurt that railway enthusiasts knew two-thirds of the locomotives by heart anyway.