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• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That happened like, 6 times.

  I can literally only think of a handful of games that had serious bugs.

  There was that ninja turtles game for nes with the impossible jump, there was enter the matrix for PS2/xbox that was completely not done. There were a few games that were poorly conceived in the first place like ET for Atari…

  But yeah, what else had serious bugs?

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There isn’t a single game without bugs

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    WrestleMania 2000 on N64 had a bug that would randomly delete all saved data.

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  • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There was plenty of terrible, buggy games you just didn’t see because stores would drop them. PC had it far worse than console did back in the day. I think it’s also that games are just way fucking cheaper now, adjusted for inflation a SNES game was around 120 bucks and a PS2 game was around 75 bucks.

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    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just don’t see how games that don’t meet QA requirements and subsequently aren’t shelved are in any way comparable to every game on the market today…

      I mean I never had to encounter those bugs, games that weren’t shelved didn’t exist in any meaningful way because nobody spent money on them. But nearly every game I buy and play today has serious bugs on day 1 (and many still have them on day 300). That feels like a different paradigm to me.

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• uienia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That only happened extremely rarely. Nowadays it seems to be almost mandatory, precisely because the mindset is that they can just fix it later

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• melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Still happens, used to be rare

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