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[Koh]

It's a form of fake difficulty...handicapping the player with bad controls/physics. It didn't overpower the game's well thought out design, but it was still bullshit, in many people's opinions. Arcade games that were based around quarter pouring...most of those had true difficulty, due to the fact that they wanted you to pour quarters in, so there'd be a million enemies or projectiles on the screen. However, the control was mostly fluent and responsive, and skillful players would be able to run on the same quarter. Given a choice, most people would probably choose a game that's hard, yet has fluent control over a game that handicaps them, and is still hard.