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King Kong Report Says the Developers Only Had One Year to Make the Game (comicbook.com)
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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apples and oranges. Making a pc game in 1993 was completely different than making a modern game.

[–] fraydabson@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah can’t blame devs. They did what they can with the time they had. Blame the people who only gave them a year…

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

to go further — some classic games were made by a single person on a single device and distributed by hand/mail.