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Which kid wants to rescue princesses and save the world when you can be a minimum wage warehouse worker? No really who was the target audience?
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>>12538442
>No really who was the target audience?
deftones fans
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>he doesn't know how popular Sokoban was

That's the problem with youtube knowledge focusing only on things like platformers made for pre-teens
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>>12538453
Yeah, when I was watching a bunch of VGL vids a year or so ago (curating ROM sets), I was surprised just how often this game would come up. It was on nearly EVERYTHING up until the late '90s.
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>In 1990 a warehouse worker could have a stay at home trad wife, a convertible, and money in the bank.
This was basically just a sim.
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>>12538520
>'90s
>non-union worker forced to push boxes instead of using forklift
it really is a sim
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>>12538450
I love Deftones but I never liked that game.
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>>12538526
lol
>His knees give out and his back is a mess but social security and retiring at 55 means that he can mooch decades of medical care from the millennial and purchases that vacation house in Wisconsin
Now I miss my dad.
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>>12538442
the blue-collar man's tetris
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>>12538453
>genere so boring and uninspired that it never even gets a proper English name
>gamers cope to this day by pretending their fancy Japanese "倉庫番" word somehow makes their pathetic genre more fun to play because JAPANESE THING GOOD WESTERN THING BAD
You are pathetic yet none should deign to pity you.
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>>12538453
yeah Sokoban got ported to basically every computer and console in existence and there were a lot of variants of it with different levels, it's a good puzzle game
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>>12538720
>never even gets a proper English name
Spectrum Holobyte just called it Soko-Ban in the West
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>>12538750
Stealing a Japanese word wholesale does not count.
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>>12538442
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>>12538442
Someone's got to move these refrigerators. Someone's got to move these color tvs. little faggot.
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>>12538442
If a game is good, it's able to sell on reputation and quick demos alone.
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>>12538442
People who play games like picrel.
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>>12538442
>Title
Good line to say the retailer looking refund for the mediocre game
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>>12538442
Boxyboy is the better Sokoban
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>>12538453
>>12538728
>>12541538
You guys need to play Void Stranger.
Like, now.



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