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>be me, 40, staring at a 15kHz CRT until my eyes bleed
>finally beat the final boss in a 1988 DOS dungeon crawler that has no save points and a manual you have to read like a holy text
>the pixels aren't just pixels anymore
>realize it’s not about the "gameplay" or the "graphics" or whatever zoomer metric
>it’s about the pure, distilled essence of human ingenuity constrained by 64KB of RAM
>it is tanscendent
>there is a beauty in the limitations that modern engines can't replicate
>you're not playing a game, you're interacting with a ghost in the machine that remembers a time when software was art and not a service
Zoomers will never understand
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Yeah
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unc
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>>12594980
>constrained by 64KB of RAM
>On Spectrum

Fake Speccy fanatic
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>>12595110
The pic is unrelated to the post obviously, Jet Set Willy is not a dungeon crawler.

The thread is about retro gaming in general.
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>>12595110
it's poorly written AI slop, the fag has been spamming the board for the last few days
might be the sega system cunt
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>transcendent experience
Oh ok, so Caverns of Larn on the Atari ST
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>>12595429
There's no "might" about it. He's been off his meds since the Apple2inJapan thread.



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