Haven't played that one.  But modern games, on normal, like uncharted and Mario are super easy. 

To be honest, and the reason I find this question hard to answer, is that the way modern games are developed it's intended for you to not struggle and enjoy the ride. Making games like Uncharted hard like Dark Souls, people just won't bother finishing the stories, which is why you are there mostly.

But in past gens, when gaming in general was more arcady, death were a regular thing and the games that were long stories (like say FF games or Zeldas) you'd rarely die and if you did it was because you were under-leveled or just miss timed a jump and fell into lava.

Spot on

I honestly can't think of a single example, at least not anything that was relatively recent. If there was one, it's been a long time.

3 games I forgot to mention:

Duck Tales on the NES. The game ain't hard, the challenge is to make boatloads of money.

Aven Colony. Mastered every mission from the start.

Long Live the Queen. I got very lucky, as this VN/Princess Maker spiritual successor has tons of failure path, and I just happened to get to a good ending on the first try despite all the reviews telling me I'd die a lot before reaching that.

I can’t think of any that I didn’t die, but I can think of several that let me accumulate “lives” but i never ran out of them. Newer Mario and DKCR namely. 

Hmm. Not sure really. Maybe Dino Crisis 2? I got it for Christmas one year, and completed it the same day (probably on the easiest difficulty though). I don't remember having much trouble with it.

I played that game over 20 years ago, so I frankly don't remember too much about it. The only thing that I can remember is this crazy ball thing that was supposed to be hard or something? My friends told me back then that it was like the ultima weapons from FF7, so I was pretty pumped because I died hundreds of times fighting these beasts. But I just killed the ball at first try. Although I wasn't even at max level. It was a real bummer.

We also didn't have internet back then. It existed, but it was expensive as hell, lol. So I didn't even have any strategies. I was on my own and the game still was just too easy. 

Which of the top 10 NES games that are considered hardest ever have you beaten on normal in 1 playthrough :)

Probably none.  Back in the NES days I could finish very few games.  I couldn't do Zelda 2 without modern save points.  Forget Ghost and Goblins.  Batman was hard too.  Only NES games I could finish was the first Zelda and Mario games.