It’s amazing, on multiple levels, just how much american arcade operators, and more broadly, developers, rushed to turn their playerbases into pure cattle; they went so far as to construct a reality and industry in which being treated like cattle is an ideal for players to seek out in art software.
Derek Yu@mossmouth.bsky.socialIt's a lesson on how much these systems can shape player perception, not just of an individual game but of entire genres and eras of gaming.
In the case of beat 'em ups, the continue system literally flattened them to the point where most people can only distinguish the themes.