• Dathknight@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    I still can hear this picture!

    Luckily you could skip it, so I was able to play the rest of the game.

    Later a gaming magazine had a guide with an optimal route, that helped me to finally beat it. (after hours of practice)

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          3 months ago

          Gtf outta here, I played the game and beat that mission way back then!

          Edit: On my Celeron 300 with a Riva TNT!

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        3 months ago

        No patches in those days. Back then when you buy a game it’s in it’s final form.

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          3 months ago

          There absolutely were patches for games back in the late 90’s; you could download them or get them off CDs in the magazines.

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            They could also just change the game they sold. I had an early print of Need for Speed Carbon for PS2. I couldn’t unlock most of the cop cars due to a bug, iirc. Later burns fixed it

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            3 months ago

            Interesting! Back then I had a playstation and a pc. Never have i ever had a patch for any of the games i owned. The magazine mostly had demo versions of games, freeware or sometimes even a full version of a game. However never seen a path! Perhaps i was an ignorant kid not aware of such features.

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              3 months ago

              In the magazines I bought, they had demos and maybe a crude review video. And when they had some spare space on the CD or DVD, they’d add a folder with patches.