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Re>> "It was... really easy" Says the guy posting on Hacker News in the year 2022. Tell that to my 6 year old self in 1990 who didn't have a computer at home a

Re>> "It was... really easy" Says the guy posting on Hacker News in the year 2022. Tell that to my 6 year old self in 1990 who didn't have a computer at home and only used a computer once a week for an hour during "computer lab" time and had to share with 2 other kids equally as dumb as myself on some old Tandy computer. Personally, I much preferred Lemmings.

spywaregorilla 4y ago
Eh. Yeah sure things are hard for kids who aren't very good at figuring out basic concepts. But a lot of games from that era were actually genuinely really hard and still are. I just thought this one was supposed to be a really tough game.
- daveslash 4y ago
  Haha, yes. I was being a bit snarky, I apologize if that didn't quite come through. You are completely right; it is a very easy game. I went back and played it through about 5 or 6 years ago and was surprised by how easy it was compared to my memory. I suspect that many people who played it as ankle-biters themselves probably have a skewed memory of its difficulty. Many of the difficult games from that era were game games ~ they were difficult be design, to be brain teasers. The Oregon Trail, by comparison, falls into the educational games specifically aimed at lower-elementary school. Similar games from my school's weekly computer lab... - Treasure Mountain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HAxdTacsgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HAxdTacsgQ - Reader Rabbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re-3D8TSYd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re-3D8TSYd8 - Mixed Up Mother Goose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r28woUwTib0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r28woUwTib0 - Where In The World is Carmen San Diego https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL-13NZAXuE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL-13NZAXuE
  - selimthegrim 4y ago
    I played Mixed Up Mother Goose as a child and later took a job at the same company as one of the developers (not Sierra or Mattel). It was kind of disorienting.

spywaregorilla 4y ago

Eh. Yeah sure things are hard for kids who aren't very good at figuring out basic concepts. But a lot of games from that era were actually genuinely really hard and still are. I just thought this one was supposed to be a really tough game.

daveslash 4y ago
Haha, yes. I was being a bit snarky, I apologize if that didn't quite come through. You are completely right; it is a very easy game. I went back and played it through about 5 or 6 years ago and was surprised by how easy it was compared to my memory. I suspect that many people who played it as ankle-biters themselves probably have a skewed memory of its difficulty. Many of the difficult games from that era were game games ~ they were difficult be design, to be brain teasers. The Oregon Trail, by comparison, falls into the educational games specifically aimed at lower-elementary school. Similar games from my school's weekly computer lab... - Treasure Mountain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HAxdTacsgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HAxdTacsgQ - Reader Rabbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re-3D8TSYd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re-3D8TSYd8 - Mixed Up Mother Goose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r28woUwTib0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r28woUwTib0 - Where In The World is Carmen San Diego https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL-13NZAXuE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL-13NZAXuE
- selimthegrim 4y ago
  I played Mixed Up Mother Goose as a child and later took a job at the same company as one of the developers (not Sierra or Mattel). It was kind of disorienting.