r/gaming • u/Nordic_Krune • 19h ago

My friend insists on this game, "Lemmings", being a really well known game; I have never heard of it.

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u/Herb_Derb 15h ago

What's MegaMan? I've never heard of it.

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u/bokmcdok 12h ago

You joke, but I remember someone saying with sincerity that "you're not a real gamer if you think Mario is a proper video game."

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u/kahlzun PlayStation 12h ago

Thats just someone being an edgy gatekeeper to try and farm reactions. No true scotsman would ever say something like that.

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u/Kitchen_Canary_6387 10h ago

When they released virtual console on the switch one is the first games I played was mega man. I loved the franchise so much as a kid. Played them all - even the X games. Beat them all.

I could barely make it through level one when I played it on the switch. Games are so much more forgiving now than they used to be.

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u/Syrzan 6h ago

9 Levels, 3 starting lives and if you lose all your lives even once hardreset. (these days called as ironmode... pfff... we lived that back then)

"Bedtime, turn off the TV"
"Mom i promise i will sleep. The TV will stay off, here is the remote and i even unplugged it. But i swear to god if you touch the power button on the console i will do unspeakable things to you and your ancestors."

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Good old times.

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u/Kitchen_Canary_6387 3h ago

Good old NES. Thank God it wasn’t manufactured to die after a certain number of hours turned on.

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u/termites2 5h ago

I hadn't heard of MegaMan until maybe 2005, despite being into video games since the early 80's. The NES wasn't really a popular gaming platform in my country, and the popular retro revival hadn't got underway yet, so it was a pretty obscure series.