Dude I miss unlocking fighting game characters. Now they’re all purchaseable… Like you literally can’t just earn them from beating the arcade mode - that is if the game has an arcade mode to begin with these days
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Danitos@reddthat.com 21 hours ago
Fun unlockables by doing some cheat.
Imagine telling a FIFA player that you used to be able to have a dog as referee by doing the Konami code. And it was not behind a fucking paywall.
International Super Star Soccer for SNES had this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYaHPm-yDl8&t=63
commanderschlepper@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
I think the last game I played that did it was Smash Bros Ultimate, and that’s barely a fighting game imo
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
The number of “cheat codes” that were actually just bonus content. Like I remember there were codes in Diddy Kong Racing where you could change all the power-up balloons to any color, like all red or all blue. I also remember there were codes in Mechwarrior II that unlocked a few mechs. Like, there were NPCs in a few missions that were a Tarantula, a Battlemaster, and there were elementals in one level. You could cheat to play as them, but the Battlemaster crashed the game.
Good times.