My point was that virtually ALL games used to be harder than Fromsoft games. Even the idea that you could actually "finish" a game was rather rare in the Atari

My point was that virtually ALL games used to be harder than Fromsoft games. Even the idea that you could actually "finish" a game was rather rare in the Atari 2600 generation of games. "Flipping the score" was a widely known concept among kids at the time. It meant that you were able to play the game for so long and your score got so high that the score reset so that it didn't go negative.