so, I've been playing my switch at work a bunch this week, and I have been playing all the OG mario games in the all stars pack on the SNES emulator. and holy shit these games are hard. like they start so fucking easy, but then the games are like oh? you think you're hot shit? and just throw the most bullshit gotchas to kill you out of nowhere that you have no clue of unless you died there before or have played this game before.

so, boomers, how the fuck did you beat these games when you were like 9 in 1987 or w/e. there's no way kids were expected to beat this shit right? have I just been raised on participation trophy ass zoomer games from the late 90s and early 2000s???

  • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Lol, a boomer would have been at least 21 when the first Mario came out comrade. I'm sure some played them but the OG Marios are more of a GenX/Millenial thing.

    Real honest truth: the internet and streaming wasn't a thing yet so if you were a middle to upper class kid with limited social skills or friends and/or you lived in an area where the idea of going outside was an absolute nightmare your choices were:

    -Television...where there probably wasn't anything good on and you've worn out all your damn VHS tapes already.

    -A Book.

    -Some hobby or past time like painting or modeling kits.

    -A videogame you could kinda just grind away at and lose yourself in.

    In that environment...you kinda necessarily had to default adopt a speedrunners mindset a bit. Boredom was the enemy....and grinding away at a game helped you sorta zone out. Do it anything enough and eventually you'll git gud.