cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/62743547
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2026
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"And the bios sayeth unto the user: Come forth and insert disk 23 of 30. And they did so. When the needle of the drive tested the disk, it had become corrupted, verily."
"Thus the monkey of the isle demanded Disk 114 be inserteth. Yet there was no Disk 114 and much confusion was sewn."
Adventure Island for NES stumped me for a while until I learned you had to do the thing
Appreciate you talking in code to avoid spoilers for a game released in 1986.
Would hate to spoil that for anyone
Not joking but I did 1800 support for Windows 95 and at the end, right before 98, there was a constant problem with a specific floppy and people would like call us and we would try to send them a cd replacement but could send the fixed floppy. It was silly because it was the most common call for a bit. Like that batch of floppies all died at the same time