In defence of the kids.

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I'm an 8th grader (1st year at high-school, I think, for you guys, High School is the first after elementary, right?

I will NEVER be close to as good in any football (soccer, for silly gooses) game as I was when I was 6. It is actually very annoying, in International SuperStar Soccer 98, my father and I rocked, we were really good and did everything great, and I was better than my father. When I play it now, he beats the socks off me!

I also remember Ocarina of Time, no-one in my family had played a video-game on a console before, so OoT was VERY though. We had trouble with the quizzes (since VGs have their own kind of logic, and we weren't used to that) and we used 100 + hours on it I think. Everyone in my family, but me, played the game, but it was too hard for them, we died 15 times on the first boss (that spider thing). Then I was alloved to play, and after about 5 times, I made it. The game was WAY to hard for a kid like me, I was 4 years old, and died several time 1-1 against the skeletons on Hyrule Field. The reason OoT is my favourite game ever, is probably because it was so darn hard - when I play it today, it's still the best game ever (perhaps due to nostalgia), but it is nothing at all compared to what it was.

Kids have more fun with hard games. They don't get upset if they die (at least none I know) and I think "kid games" are way too easy.

Another example is my best friend's little sister. She's 7 years old, and for some reason, she rocks at games, but she never thought it was fun. The reason was that she played too easy games. When my friend and I babysat (is that the word in english?) her, she played SMG, a game 4 times as hard as any game she had ever played. She loved it, while she had disliked games before. She probably saw the "game over" picture 50 times, in just 2-3 hours, but she loved it.

Kids need difficulties too, if it's too easy, it's simply not that fun. Kind of what some of you said about TP.

I mean, come on, Whinnie the Pooh? Give them some REAL, but nice enviormental, games.

Darn, afraid I went a bit off-topic there, sorry!