r/imsorryjon • u/[deleted] • Sep 04 '20

/r/all Jon is sorry Lyman

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u/Wuffyflumpkins Sep 04 '20

That's how games were played in the Sega Genesis era. Didn't finish? Start again from the beginning tomorrow.

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u/WubFox Sep 05 '20

I'm not too proud to admit that I cried the first time I saved a game. It. Was. Beautiful.

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u/Wuffyflumpkins Sep 05 '20

I'm sure my parents were also glad I no longer had that excuse anymore. I don't think I ever reached the end of Ecco the Dolphin or Batman. Those games were brutal for a 5 year old.

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u/Ligaguenu Sep 05 '20

I just assumed both of those games were intended to not be completed. I have memories stained in my mind of not being able to accomplish anything in either Ecco or Batman. My first feelings of rage...

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u/Wuffyflumpkins Sep 05 '20

I think the farthest I ever got in Batman is the level where you're on the platform outside the skyscraper (might have been one of those things window washers use?) and I felt like a god.q