Nintendo's Easy Modes – Scott's Stash

A timely video from Scott Wozniak. In the footnotes, I wrote this;

"I actually think it is over 20 years, but I don't want to go down the rabbit hole to see which game first introduced an auto-complete assist if you die too much. I think it'd be one of the New Super Mario Bros. titles."

Turns out Scott did the research for me and I was correct.

Watching these little assist modes in action, within the context of the game, these are far more elegant than I could ever imagine an Big Tech AI (not video game AI) ghost trying to play the game for the player. You know who knows how to beat the game? The developers that made the game.