It was kinda bs that it was allowed at the time, but it was.... My hot take, they were accepted at the time so let them stand.... but.... As players we all have the option to just go beat them. There was a player who did that as just a standard thing who had scores on the console I play on.
1) there are old games, both arcade and console-based, that nobody has bothered challenging because they can't get the game and/or
This is truly a huge factor! As for the Asteroids 1 ship track (hardest rom set), I have been told by many people that they just don't have access to ROM set 4. But this