In the original Sims, I was 11, and didn’t realize skills improvement would get your sims better jobs.
My sims were all top ranked in the military because that was the best job that required no skills.
In the original Sims, I was 11, and didn’t realize skills improvement would get your sims better jobs.
My sims were all top ranked in the military because that was the best job that required no skills.
Pole Position. It was part of an Atari arcade pack on my Gameboy Advanced. I would press and hold the A button so hard that the letter would be imprinted on my thumb, but I could not pass the qualifying round despite my best attempts.
As an adult, it suddenly hit me one day. I did not realize, as a kid, that I needed to change gears to go faster.
So I tried it out in order to test my theory. The graphics barely showed up on the screen because the gba was like 15 years old or older at that point.
Passed the qualifying race my first try just by gearing up.
Wow. I hated that game. I think this is why. To be fair, I don’t think I even knew what gears were on a car at that age.
My wife and I went to an arcade this weekend and they had Pole Position there. She didn’t figure out shifting either for the first several tries and once I showed her she then didn’t understand that you had the option of lifting off of the gas instead of slamming into your opponents at light speed and turning into burning wreckage.
I miss when games were unapologetically hard.