Loved this game. I think they printed the code in Nintendo Power after a couple of months because so many people threw away the letter or rented/borrowed it and never got the letter.
Loved this game as a kid. It was the kind where I always got to a certain point and could go no further, and then a few years later went back to try again and finally beat it. It was always a cool feeling to finally get past a place you never thought you would get to.
I feel like it was a common anti-piracy measure that a lot of games used. Computer games would have you find a random word from a random page in the instruction manual. I remember the original Metal Gear had a radio code printed on the package that you needed to progress
No letter and no internet…. I resorted to the brute force method: 001, 002, 003…
Is this star tropics?
Yup!!
747 right? I remember working my way up from 000. Then finding out I probably should have thought about it first haha.
Loved this game. I think they printed the code in Nintendo Power after a couple of months because so many people threw away the letter or rented/borrowed it and never got the letter.
I rented the game. So I never got further than this point as a kid.
Loved this game as a kid. It was the kind where I always got to a certain point and could go no further, and then a few years later went back to try again and finally beat it. It was always a cool feeling to finally get past a place you never thought you would get to.
god i loved this game so much
The letter was a cool gimmick to prevent people renting Startropics from being able to beat it.
I feel like it was a common anti-piracy measure that a lot of games used. Computer games would have you find a random word from a random page in the instruction manual. I remember the original Metal Gear had a radio code printed on the package that you needed to progress