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You should play it on your reel-to-reel.

There are separate rankings for emulated runs versus original hardware runs. He (allegedly) submitted something as an original hardware run that was run off of an emulator.

Using an emulator, you can alter the game’s performance, change the speed, set a save state and revert to it if you fail at something, etc. and then play it back and record that. There’s no way to know if that’s what happened, but the video he submitted does not show that it was recorded using original hardware.

With upscaled images, you can prove who owned the original images, which is fine.

One game that no one’s seemed to mention is ANNO: Mutationem. It’s more of a hack and slash type 2D pixel style game, but the cyberpunk themes and settings are all there.

Back in the day we used to just call them “Doom Clones”. If it wasn’t for Doom (2016) we could have gone back to that.

Insert “They came after gamers” copypasta here.

I mean, by the time they finish it, he’s going to be over 100 years old…