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Thanks for sharing that article. New Tetris led me down the rabbit hole to the "Dirty coding tricks from game developers" [0] offsite articles. Lots of fun to

Thanks for sharing that article. New Tetris led me down the rabbit hole to the "Dirty coding tricks from game developers" [0] offsite articles. Lots of fun to read anecdotes about turning crashes and malfunctions into features. [0] https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/more-dirty-coding-tricks-from-game-developers https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/more-dirty-coding-trick...

boomboomsubban 3y ago
So that's why saving never worked on NBA Jam TE. I figured they lazily didn't remove the save option from the port. A childhood mystery solved at last.
InvisibleUp 3y ago
The Wing Commander one was a myth. See https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/16279 https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/16279 and its HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37564217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37564217