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Has some of the best glitches. The gameplayer list definitely needs more nes/snes titles.

Maxed out.
Beyond maxed out.

Maxed out.
Beyond maxed out.

But who the hell would want to do that for a job? Honestly....

How about that guy?

I don't know if he's as good with testing software in general, but I suspect he would be. Then again, I might be afraid to find out.

Tests of MMCSS during Vista development showed that... heavy network traffic can cause enough long-running DPCs to prevent playback threads from keeping up with their media streaming requirements, resulting in glitching. MMCSS' glitch-resistant mechanisms were therefore extended to include throttling of network activity.

Oh noes, don't let this guy get his hands on it!

There were innumerable ways to get all kinds of wierdness to happen in the old NES and SNES games. I never owned a Genesis, but I can't imagine there aren't tons of them.

I knew several people who used to glitch hunt back in the day. It was a way to hack the games without really being able to hack them per se. Figuring out all the flaws. A quick search for such gave me http://kontek.net/davidwonn/nes.html which is a glitch listing site for NES games, and I'm sure there are far more like it.

The difference between the glitches of old and the bugs of today is that for the most part, the old time glitches didn't interrupt normal gameplay. If you never tried whatever the particular arcane button combination was at the exact time you needed to do it, you never saw it. Sometimes you wanted to, like the invincibility glitch in Mega Man 3, because it made the game easier or made everything all wierd colors or something. These days bugs tend to make games almost impossible to play, or damage your computer. See Deus Ex 2 for Xbox (would BSOD the console, always amusing) and Pool of Radiance 2 for PC (the infamous hard drive erasing bug).

Of course, there were plenty of shoddily designed games back in those days where the bugs were so awful that it made the games near unplayable, but they generally game from fly by night operators in the first place. Look around the old NES game reviews in GameFAQs and you'll see a ton of prime offenders.

Excellent idea. Given enough time, I bet this guy would find a glitch in the game to do so. In fact, I think I spotted Cowboy Neal hiding in one of the photos.

Why hum it when you've learned to play it on guitar?

For those interested, there are several Videogame tabulature sites
VGJam and Nintendo Tabs are some of the better ones I've found. VGJam has a nice selection of Sonic tabs, though.

Yes, Deezer's other site, Video Game Jam.