Hey fellow geeks,
How is your night going? Who is only half-reading my post because they are busy playing fortnite at the moment?
Let's talk about passwords. And yes this applies to only old school games as I cannot even think of an example of a modern game that uses them. but if you can think of one please let me know in the comments. You remember passwords in old Nintendo and Super games. Sometimes they were easy, a couple of letters to remember or jot down and then reenter when it was time to play them. But some of them were not so easy. They were a long string like it was a bitcoin wallet address :p. Yes bitcoin gaming humour. And some required a chart.
I remember having sheets around the house for different games. I had a system for Mega Man. At first I would use a chart that I made myself to represent the password screen. But then I moved to a b5, e4, f1 type system that was similar to battleship.
Also, and maybe it was just me, I never used passwords for levels i didn't make it to. Like you had to make it there yourself or it didn't count. Was it just me? Or were you flipping through the Nintendo Power magazine and copying the codes down?
I got to say I don't miss them, especially now that crypto is here and I got enough passwords to worry about :p.
How about you?
@whatageek
Before the internet, you had to have 'That Friend' who had all the passwords and cheat codes. I agree that getting a password from actually earning it was a better feeling. I don't miss passwords, it was a part of our gaming evolution though.
lol I think I was that friend :p
I think i played some of those games, the early GTA series maybe, some cheatcodes...
its sad tho that I wasn't upportuned to play such games as a kid tho, and the games I play now such as fifa 18 and cod4 dont have passwords
I do not miss them either, though having the perspective of pretending you are playing battleship to remember a password is kinda a fun turn...kinda ;)
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I dont miss password screens one bit. What i do miss, however, are good old fashioned cheat codes.
When I saw how long these passwords are...I was surprised. I can't believe I paid quarters to play a couple of minutes at the arcade. These games go on forever for free at home!! Oh well. Lol
Nice post @whatageek
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Install KeePassXC and forget about all your passwords 😜
I know that passwords are still used in some indie games. Sometimes just some arrow keys on the title screen and you may get some extra content or something. I can't remember specific ones at present but I vividly remember seeing it before.
I used to play this game (can't remember the name). It was played on the classic Nintendo, the one that didn't have the X and Y buttons yet, and you had a rambo-type character where the goal is go through some sort of jungle to defeat the boss. If you enter the password very quickly and at just the right time, you'll supposedly get unlimited lives and a powerful weapon to help you through. Sadly, I was never quick enough in entering the long password (it was something like up-down-A-A-B-A-select-start-A-A-B-B-left-right-A-B-start) to get the power up. Either that or I was lied to and it was never the correct password to begin with.
Contra from 1987, all-time best shooter if you ask me...
The Koname code was Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Select Start (for single player, add another Select to the cheat)
Wow! That's exactly what I was talking about. I just looked it up in Youtube. That game is a classic.
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You know what I've never seen before though? A game save system that worked by way of gently caressing the cartridge.
its great job of gaming not to password screen,,thanks for sharing
The last line of the text got me bad...
But, I do miss game passwords really, especially the legendary Konami code
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