I know what I should rant about interminably today!
Let's talk about clunky interfaces for video games!
Most nerds will at least have heard of the "tank controls make Resident Evil shit to control and that's good actually" position.
But let's talk about games with LUDICROUSLY limited controls, like when even a popup menu was considered cutting edge, and text was expensive enough that they shipped you a game book with all the text in it, and just printed the page number on screen.
🧵
Craig P
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