16th November 2015, 8:02 AM
Weird how American ports had that reputation for being "dumbed down", but all too often the games were actually made HARDER for their US release. I'm thinking of games like Double Dragon 3 as well as Hard Corps. Even Super Mario Bros. 2 (Dream Factory: Doki Doki Panic) got harder for the US release. Not only does it lack a save system, they made the bizarre decision to add limited continues to the game (2 of them). It's the only Mario game that has limited continues, in fact.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)