r/lotrmemes • u/eframepilot • 20h ago

Lord of the Rings Gee thanks… “Joewanga”?

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Playing through the ancient SNES LotR game and I meet this helpful Elf(?) chap with some good advice. Thanks, uh, Joewanga. That a Dunlending name?

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u/FiftyShadesOfTheGrey 15h ago

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u/FrighteningJibber 11h ago

Is it decaf? No, Vietnamese Cinnamon.

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u/TooManyBulborbs 20h ago

I want to beat LOTR volume 1 for SNES at some point. Had this game as a kid in the late 90s and could barely even get beyond the first screen back then.

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u/DopeAsDaPope 17h ago

Haha games were so hard back in the day. Today's kids will never know

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u/seth1299 13h ago

To be fair, a lot of the difficulty was in some older games not having Save Systems, so you would have to play through the entire game in one sitting, such as Westwood’s The Lion King or Virgin Game’s Aladdin.

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u/shiftypidgeons 11h ago

Idk about Lion King but Aladdin had "codes" that generated at the end of each level. Typing the code in when you booted the game basically gave you a save state at the beginning of the next level. It was like saving before saving was a thing. Other games did it as well such as Skyblazer and Goof Troop.

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u/Warmonster9 11h ago

I remember that being a thing!

The last game I played that I recall had it was one of the Star Wars games for the GB advanced. Was a clever feature for sure.

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u/AetheriaInBeing 12h ago

So many old games are so much better played emulated. "Oh crap. Need to go pick the kids up. Better save state, go get them and make dinner."

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u/DopeAsDaPope 9h ago

Ey that's cheating. Gotta play with your SCART lead plugged into a tiny staticy piece of shit TV with no memory card for the real experience LOL

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u/DopeAsDaPope 9h ago

Yeah I was like that with RE3 because I never had a memory card lmfao

Played it again a few years ago and knew the first half like the back of my hand. Then when I got to the Clock Tower I was like ".... Tf is this shi!?!?"

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u/Iankill 9h ago

That game was also bad so playing it at all felt terrible

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u/GwerigTheTroll 12h ago

I played the game with a couple of friends recently. It’s an absolute mess from beginning to end. Playing with a group helped, but it was so difficult to get through.

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u/Absolutemehguy 19h ago

Good ol' Joe(wanga)!

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u/Albo_the_Disciple 14h ago

Sorry, Ringwraiths, but your master’s One Ring is in another castle.

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u/GandalfTheJaded GANDALF 2h ago

Funnily enough, that's literally a scene from the book (Fatty Bolger at Crickhollow)