
Arcades: Nostalgia Abounds
Stuff You Should Know
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Kill Screens
There was a technological limitation to these arcade games that were based on eight bit processors the hardware was in an eight bit processor can only store 256 total values So if you got good enough at some of these games You could get up to screen 255 and when you hit screen 256 the game would sort of skits out on you and stop. It's just yeah very neat. I knew this episode is gonna go like this Yeah, we just took fistfuls of member berries before we did this one Kim.
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