If you press F in Skifree, you can outrun the snow monster.
This reminds me of the MGS one where the frequency for Meryl is on the back of the game case.
The worst was games that required info from the manual to progress past a certain point, like star tropics. Rented the game and the rental place didn’t include the manual? Shit out of luck. And no Internet back then to look it up, either. (Yes, I’m still bitter)
I remember some computer games would also do things like that to prevent copying the game from a friend, like requiring a certain word from a certain page before loading.
I bought Sim City for PC at a used bookstore, and it didn’t come with the reference page for a code it would ask you for after playing a certain amount of time.
Without this code, the game would turn on all hazards (tornados, fires, flooding, Godzilla, etc) and make itself unplayable.
Also it was black on red to make it harder to photocopy. I remember my mom being proud that she’d used the filters on the fancy copier she had at work to copy this sheet.
You could actually win Battle toads, you’d only have to get gud
