• sugar_in_your_tea
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    4 days ago

    I think the notion of a “git gud” game largely came from Contra. Yes, the genre didn’t last, but people crowding around the arcade machine translated to people making videos of themselves beating a hard game.

    It’s a different kind of connection.

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      4 days ago

      Git Gud started with Donkey Kong. Younger gamers have no idea how hard some of the coin driven games were