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?
