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Steve16384 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes

Pretty much every 8-bit computer game of 1987 or earlier (before the 128kB machines became popular) were < 40Kb? The Spectrum and Commodore combined probably had a library in excess of 50,000 games.

forinti 3 months ago [–]

I love how you can put all the games ever made for a given 8 bit platform on a single flash drive.

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