| klydwntelos said: See, that's the thing. All NES games back in that era were hard. I thought SMB3 was actually easy compared to the other games I was playing back then... although maybe megaman was easier. The point is that it was absolutely amazing for its time. It looked and played so much better than pretty much anything else at the time. After doing most of my gaming during the NES and SNES era, I find many current games are so easy that they don't actually interest me. For example, I think A Link to the Past is incomparably better than Ocarina of Time. My brother and I used to sequence break A Link to the Past so we could play any of the last 8 dungeons and fight the bosses with low health (but all the items) just for fun. Ocarina, with half of the number of items and totally linear gameplay, and no difficult boss fights just seems boring in comparison. |
Actually, coming from the arcade era, NES games were freakin' easy.
Older arcade games were evil. They just got faster and faster, bigger and bigger, and went on and on forever until they crushed your soul. You didn't win those games. The game owned you. Sure you got a high score, but there was no light at the end of the tunnel except the score and bragging rights.
Most gamers crushed SMB3. Had you called it difficult back in the late 80s/early 90s, people would have laughed at you.
