Tennis scores are bourgeois decadence. Inflating points to make them seem bigger than they are to keep the proles out
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2024
67 points (100.0% liked)
chapotraphouse
13640 readers
723 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
Inflating numbers to make them bigger is also peak Japanese game design
The Mario Tennis RPG for the GBC had some NPC with this line about falling in love at 15, 30, 45, but I can't remember how it went lol
There's an old saying in Mario Tennis—I know it's on the GBC, probably the GBA too—that says, fall in love at 15—shame on you—fall in love at 30... and... you're 45 you can't love again.
I gotcha covered! I used good ol' strings on the ROM and thankfully the text is stored as standard ASCII, so it worked like a charm. Here's what I found:
Scoring in tennis
is so romantic,
don'cha think?
First it's 15-love,
then it's 30-love.
It's so dreamy. But...
Once both sides score,
the love is gone...
I guess love in
tennis, is all
one-sided...
You don't think so?
The first point is
called 15-love.
It's like first love at
age 15. No other
sport scores like that.
Oh, I see you filled
your heart with love
and made the rankings.
Does this mean that
love has lifted you
higher?
Nice, thanks for doing that! 
That game was so good. I wish there were more RPGs like that one. Except the skill degradation system, fuck that noise.
I think Golf Story and it's sequel, Sports Story, are supposed to be like it - never played them, but they seem relatively well received
Edit: also, I loved how you could pull your characters from the GBC game over to the N64 version. I think I had a super over leveled set when I was a super bored kid 
Anything that makes me take my shoes and socks off so I can count to 40 is too complicated
You play barefoot?
I got no other choice!!
I'm sure comrades in c/mutual_aid would be happy to buy you a pair of tennis shoes.
Big love energy in this comment.