8.1. Hacks 94-100

One book—100 hacks—can hardly do justice to 40 years of games and the clever ideas people have developed within and without. Here's a heaping handful of hacks that didn't fit in elsewhere but were too good to resist.

What would you give to learn how to beat any shoot-em-up? How about how to play Japanese games without speaking a lick of Japanese? Maybe you'd prefer to dig out your old DOS games from 1994 and play them on your PowerBook or increase the framerate of your Nintendo 64.