A shocking number of floppy disk games were self-booting. It was the norm outside of, like, MS-DOS and Amiga.
Karateka for Apple II infamously exploited this by being double-sided. The Apple II’s floppy drive was single-sided - you had to flip the disk over to read the other side. Karateka fit on one side. If you booted it upside-down, it would play upside-down.
A shocking number of floppy disk games were self-booting. It was the norm outside of, like, MS-DOS and Amiga.
Karateka for Apple II infamously exploited this by being double-sided. The Apple II’s floppy drive was single-sided - you had to flip the disk over to read the other side. Karateka fit on one side. If you booted it upside-down, it would play upside-down.