buglord fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Jan 11, 2019

When I was very young, a magazine said you could get infinite lives in a specific game by getting down to 1 life and then being killed by two things at the same time. It worked. (I remember what the game looked like, but no idea what it was - the first bit involved a horizontal frogger-like area with things bouncing up and down you had to avoid, so to lose two lives at once you had to find a spot where two of those hit each other and stand in it.)

Anyway, I formed a habit of trying this method in other hard games, and found it worked several times.

My favorite instance of it was one of those isometric 3D games that was extremely hard (couldn't remember the name but looked it up by searching for 80s isometric 3D games - it was Sweevo's World); I found the -1 lives cheat worked in it, and then a month later a magazine came out with like 80 long lines of hexadecimal nonsense you could painstakingly type in before loading the game to get infinite lives. I wrote to them to say you could much easier do it by losing two lives at once instead (with specific instructions for going to a room it was easy to do in), and they never did anything with it.

roomforthetuna fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Jan 11, 2019