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qsera 43 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How we made hit video game Prince of Persia

>It was also incredibly difficult.

And we dumb kids used to play it without the manual. It was a minor victory day for us when we finally figured out how to pick up the sword!

chihuahua 43 days ago [–]

I remember having hundreds of pirated C64 and Amiga games. When starting a new game, we'd press every single key on the keyboard and try to figure out what, if anything, that key did.

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