25th March 2010, 10:26 AM
Quote:Take Mario games, for example. The Mario games on the NES were quite brutal in terms of deaths. Not only could you die in two hits, a majority of the levels were rigged with traps that made those two hits hard to avoid.
I've found that this is at least half an illusion. When I played Super Mario Bros. as a six and seven year-old, it was difficult and beating it was an accomplishment. Today I can breeze through the game in less than a half-hour without losing a life.
Alternatively, games like Zelda II: The Adventure of Link are still stupid hard.
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