Children, youth, Soriku. Whatever you want to call them, kids don't seem to get the respect they deserve in the Videogame world. You know what reviewers say: "This game is too hard for kids", "It's too easy for adults but kids might like it" and most importantly "The game is too complicated for kids to get into".

And this got me thinking. I was a kid once. A typical kid who played videogames and ate junk food thought about breasts way to stinking much for someone that little. My friends were kids too. And when I think of the games that we all played, I'm filled with warm memories of metroid, zelda, ninja gaiden and many other F'ing hard games.

Seriously. I'm playing Zelda II: The adventures of Link on VC right now and I don't think they make games this hard anymore. And if they did most people who aren't kids wouldn't buy it because it would get slammed in reviews for being too hard. But the kids that picked that game up would play it regardless. They'd get they're ass handed to them but keep coming back and eventually beat it.

So I say lets celebrate the kid. That pint size videogame guru that doesn't give up when the games get tough. Because the more they know just how hard the games they're playing are now, the less likely they are to grow up and write kids off as being unable to handle tough games.

Oh yeah! Battletoads! That game was harder than quartz! I LOVED Battletoads. I played it with my one friend all the damn time.

A gamer is a gamer; it does not matter if they're a kid or not. We have Leo-J, a 15-year-old kid playing and loving Half-life. Then there's Soriku, a 13-year-old kid playing Devil May Cry. Also, let's not forget about the older generation. When we were kids, we played fucking metroid and Megaman! That's not what I would call easy.

True I have a bunch of VC games and get my ass handed to me on a regular basis. Those TG-16 shooters are murder!

 All of us :P

But yeah, Super Mario Bros is rather a pain in the @rse, Legend Of Zelda, I guess that devs had so much time free because normally they wouldn't worried so much for the graphics, so they used it to made a game that lasted all our childhood...

Well said, Stof. As a kid, I used to ritually take down some of the most legendary tough games ever (including Rygar, TMNT, and Battletoads). I never even thought twice about it. Now, I'm fairly lame. Somewhere along the way, we lose that certain something, I guess.


Oh well. At least I have sex now. Fair exchange, I'd say.

I'm 16, am I a kid?

No dude. I'm talking straight up Elementary school children. They can be gaming gods!

As a gamer who's had a controller in his hands since he was literally 2, I know no game is too hard for a kid, its all in the user, I know many older folks that used to play video games all the time (my mom) but can't play the harder games now, she still plays the old Zelda though, so maybe a game is too hard for adults rather then kids. I first beat Super Mario Bros 3 on the NES when I was 5, that's a pretty hard one...