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Re:I made an NES emulator – What I learned about the origina... by jdalgetty on Thursday April 02, 2015 @01:36PM (#9312111)
MC Kids was one of your favorite games? My wife and I actually played that the other night and wondered who actually bought it when it came out? Was it something you wanted or was it a random gift of some sort?
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Re:I made an NES emulator – What I learned about the origina... by coldpie on Thursday April 02, 2015 @01:40PM (#9312139)
Honestly, I don't remember how we got it. I was four years old when it was released. My mom used to go into Funcoland and just buy whatever looked good, or maybe what an employee recommended. Actually, I should ask her if she remembers.

And yeah, I'm a big fan. Aside from just growing up with it, it's a really solid NES-era platformer. If you're curious to learn more about it, one of the developers actually maintains a blog and has written about it a few times. He also posts on HN infrequently.

http://games.greggman.com/game/m_c_kids/

http://games.greggman.com/game/programming_m_c__kids/

Also he & the other two primary developers actually signed my cartridge:

http://gamesplusone.com/mckidscart.jpg

I'm a dork.

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Re:I made an NES emulator – What I learned about the origina... by Jeremy1026 on Thursday April 02, 2015 @01:52PM (#9312255)
It was a solid game. It was dynamic enough to remain interesting. And the difficulty level was perfect for my ~6 year old self. Though, I don't think I ever actually beat it. Got stuck on Hamburgler too many times.
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Re:I made an NES emulator – What I learned about the origina... by bitJericho on Thursday April 02, 2015 @11:23PM (#9314290)
Cinemassacre did a really good review of it here: http://cinemassacre.com/2006/09/01/mckids/
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