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???
It's because most of them were originally arcade games, where the aim was to make kids put in all their money. Best way to do that was make it hard as fuck, and give them limited lives.
I am a zoomer, and I remember people complaining about Ninja Gaiden back in the early aughts. Also, have you tried to 100% Burnout 3: Takedown? I got that game in about 05 or 06, and I only managed to get hold medals on every event last year, and that was after a few serious attempts. That game is no joke.
Burnout 3 was my favorite game as a kid. I made it all the way thru the campaign until i was supposed to race an f1 on a curvy, busy highway
I rage quit after trying to beat that level for i dont know how many days
Honestly, I know exactly the one you're on about. It was a preview race and the car was the Circuit Racer, or something like that. I think the map was Coastal Highway? I don't know, but that was a nightmare.
There was another race on that same track but in reverse, and using a Sports Coupé, that was even worse. It took solid days of playing it to get gold, and by the end I was only improving by fractions of a second each time. Some of the Crash maps were rock hard as well.