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TL;DR:

You need to collect a certain number of coins in certain levels to make one appear (...), but there are a couple fun things about it

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, I never knew. That was so fascinating. Thank you for sharing!

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Ditto! I've been playing with 8-bit assembly programming and it's fascinating how this mechanic was implemented in just a couple bytes of level data.