What's a Game Without Glitches? Nintendo Classic Brings Over Glitches From the 80's!

One of the perfect ways to pass the time is to play video games. Back in the 80's, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES for short) is a popular console for most of the kids. Now that Nintendo released a miniature version of it in the contemporary times, it brings nostalgia to most of the adults. The NES have been a part of their childhood and seeing it bring brought back alive brings nostalgia and a trip to their childhood.

For the NES Classic Edition release, Nintendo made sure that they will still follow the design of the original NES. Of course, there's going to be adjustments to catch up with the latest technology used in today's times. But what most people tend to forget is that the NES Classic is just an emulator of the old console and its games. So naturally, bugs and glitches from the old games.

Glitches are software errors coming from the source code that tends to be overlooked during the post-production of the game development. Some glitches may include distorted graphics, misspelled words or may cause game breaking bugs. Not all glitches are distorted images or sprites. Some of them proved to be harmful that once triggered in-game, they'll cause permanent damage to your save file (and maybe the game itself), causing you to lose your progress (or brick your game).To people who grew up with the original NES, they'll find these glitches rather nostalgic as some of them proved to be "hidden cheats" in the games. And a lot of these glitches made its way to the games built inside the NES Classic.

An example would be the Minus World glitch in Super Mario Bros. To attain this glitch, in World 1-2, players must stand on the pipe at the very end of the level, move far to the left and duck while facing the same direction and then jump while ducking. When executed correctly, the player will move through the wall into an adjacent room with three warp pipes. Go through to either the far left pipe or the far right pipe to appear in the Minus World. The Minus World is a water level that keeps on going on and on. Even if the player dies in this level, they'll simply to back to the start of the level. There is no escape in this level because it just keeps looping.

Another glitch is present in the Legend of Zelda is by typing the name "ZELDA" at the start of the game to skip the first dungeon. The two mentioned above are some of the glitches that are present and can be triggered in the NES Classic.

A glitch like that and many others made their way to the NES Classic. Of course, some people would find the glitch interesting and fascinating once they've unlocked it. Others like the millennials, who are experiencing these games for the first of their lives (probably) would rage over something that they can't beat. Regardless, it's rather nostalgic to know that some of your favorite cheats got carried over to the mini version of the NES.