| BenKenobi88 said: It's weird how games seemed easier when we were younger... I started playing some Sonic games on the Genesis the other day...and I sucked it up, I don't know how I was able to beat things so easily as a kid. |
Ahhh… I think about this all the time :)
As a kid, you had lightning fast reflexes and were able to dedicate your full attention to a game. In fact, your mum can shout that “dinner is ready” a thousand times, without you hearing a single word!! 
Kids get ridiculously engaged in games, because the troubles in life hadn’t really kicked in yet. Your greatest concerns were about the amount of pocket change you had for the arcades or how you plan to reach mother brain with more than 50 missiles in hand when you get home from school.
Then you grow up and realise that life is not just a bowl of cherries. Responsibilities and commitments start to pile up and so do the worries associated with them. Suddenly, it’s hard to concentrate on the simple pleasures in life when there are a lot more pressing matters at hand. I’m constantly reminded by a few friends that it gets even worse after marriage and children. And to top it off, whenever you try to play new game and get into the fun again, it feels either too hard, too boring, or too familiar (the feeling of having done this same sh** a hundred times before). The interest just isn’t the same as what it used to be.
This is how it was for me, but recently a bit of that youthful excitement has returned. Kudos to Nintendo for finally focussing on something different and creating the Wii to deliver a new experience. After playing it for a day at a friend’s place, I finally felt that inner child wake up again. Now, I’m thinking that maybe all this time, I just wanted to play something new/different rather than the same old, same old. I’ve started reading gaming news again and visiting the gaming forums…I am about to buy my first console in over 8 years… and I can’t wait!
