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Anecdote: When I was a kid in the ’90s in Germany, I once went to a mega store to buy a NES game on discount. My final choice was between Defender of the Crown and, if I remember correctly, Wizards & Warriors 3, and I picked Defender based on the box art. Bad choice. In all my childhood years, I was never able to figure out how to play this game well.

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Strange. Like most of the C64 games in that era in my country, my brother and I got a pirated copy with no instructions and we never had any problem figuring out how it works.

Maybe the NES version was harder. I sucked at everything: the raids, the bombardments, the jousting, the battles. I couldn’t do anything right and would pretty much always die before turn 10.

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