#retro

Keeping a boss or enemy alive to squeeze out maximum points.

Stringing kills or pickups together to keep a score multiplier alive.

Dropping a bomb to wipe the screen before a bullet pattern blooms.

A hidden final boss that only appears for players good enough to earn it.

Rotating the display 90 degrees to play a vertical shmup as intended.

When a TAS proves it runs on real console hardware, not just an emulator.

Stepping a game forward one single frame at a time.

Free extra life, pure and simple.

Clearing the whole game on a single credit, no continues.

Emulation so precise it copies the chip clock tick by tick.

Playing emulated retro games online together.

The lit-up artwork sign crowning an arcade cabinet.

The demo a coin-op plays to itself to lure you in.

Maxing the score counter so it physically can't display any higher.

A digital rip of a cartridge or disc's data.

Spamming the pause menu to step the game forward one frame at a time.

The level where a game's code eats itself and dies.

Beating every stage so the game restarts harder instead of ending.

A bullet an enemy fires at you the moment it dies.

Playing a vert in tate mode by lying on your side instead of rotating the TV.

Cracking open a game's ROM to rewrite how it plays or looks.

Firing from right up against an enemy to concentrate maximum damage.

Beat the game as fast as possible, no extra requirements.

A full snapshot of the game you can reload instantly.

Clearing a stage, boss or whole game without losing a single life.

Dynamic difficulty that ramps up based on how well you're playing.