{"id":1159823,"date":"2026-02-09T23:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/steam-hit-repo-hides-real-class-and-an-understanding-of-gaming-greats-behind-its-chummy-chaos-and-crude-emojis"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:46:22","slug":"steam-hit-repo-hides-real-class-and-an-understanding-of-gaming-greats-behind-its-chummy-chaos-and-crude-emojis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/steam-hit-repo-hides-real-class-and-an-understanding-of-gaming-greats-behind-its-chummy-chaos-and-crude-emojis\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam hit REPO hides real class and an understanding of gaming greats behind its chummy chaos and crude emojis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/steam-hit-repo-hides-real-class-and-an-understanding-of-gaming-greats-behind-its-chummy-chaos-and-crude-emojis.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I have a wonderfully vague memory of a game my older brothers used to play on the Commodore 64 back in the day. It was a platform game, with pixel heroes and floating gantries and ladders and all that jazz, but there was also a wheelbarrow, and you needed the wheelbarrow to hold all the collectibles you picked up. When you&#8217;d all but completed each screen &#8211; as my memory had it &#8211; you then had to leg it back to the wheelbarrow and take it to the next screen where the whole thing was repeated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/steam-hit-repo-hides-real-class-and-an-understanding-of-gaming-greats-behind-its-chummy-chaos-and-crude-emojis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/steam-hit-repo-hides-real-class-and-an-understanding-of-gaming-greats-behind-its-chummy-chaos-and-crude-emojis\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a wonderfully vague memory of a game my older brothers used to play on the Commodore 64 back in the day. 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