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Ye the difference is insane ... Try to finnish Mega Man or Super Mario 3 (without using the cheat pipes). I mean ... did any child actually manage to do it? A

Ye the difference is insane ... Try to finnish Mega Man or Super Mario 3 (without using the cheat pipes). I mean ... did any child actually manage to do it? As an adult I managed to finnish Sonic 2 after trying like 4 times. I could only pass one level in Mega Man. The difficulty level were really hard core. And no easy mode either.

sethammons 4y ago
I beat SMB3 and MegaMan 2 as a kid several times. I can't make progress in Dark Souls :(
justsomehnguy 4y ago
Kids has the benefit of the brain being in active learning phase. They notice the things (often subconsciously) what the adult brain misses or need more repetition or just shown slowly.
philliphaydon 4y ago
I sunk many many 10s or 100s of hours into games like Shining Force, Breath of Fire, Chrono Trigger, Illusions of Gaia, etc. Now I get bored of games after a few hours :(
ekianjo 4y ago
> Try to finnish Mega Man or Super Mario 3 (without using the cheat pipes). I mean ... did any child actually manage to do it? Of course we did. We also didn't have hundreds of games to play at the same time.
- CyanBird 4y ago
  Correct, yeh, this is a matter of both a captive audience and the situation that a family might be able to purchase two or three games a year tops, so the games that they were able to acquire needed to have that difficulty in order to make sure that the players would not blaze through the content too quickly while at the same time ensuring that the hefty challenge was enough to entertain them for as long possible This is why rts games from my perspective will not return as we used to know them, they relied on that captive audience side of things, which faded away during the early 00's
mikebenfield 4y ago
There are plenty of very difficult old games, but Super Mario 3 is definitely not one of them.
- oneoff786 4y ago
  I agree. I would say it’s the easiest of the first 3 (4) titles
bproven 4y ago
I did (mega man), but as others point out it was a diff time. Basically we would rent the game (remember that lol) and play it solid non-stop for 2-3 days trying to beat it.
dole 4y ago
As a kid, I played Mega Man for months before I had the patience and muscle memory to beat the yellow cyclops boss, and a few seconds after the first time I beat it, our area got hit with a power brownout. Wily ended up an easier fight. Now that I think about it, at that point, I’d played countless hours of games on the Fairchild Channel F, Atari 2600 and C64, how were my reflexes back then?

sethammons 4y ago

I beat SMB3 and MegaMan 2 as a kid several times. I can't make progress in Dark Souls :(

justsomehnguy 4y ago

Kids has the benefit of the brain being in active learning phase. They notice the things (often subconsciously) what the adult brain misses or need more repetition or just shown slowly.

philliphaydon 4y ago

I sunk many many 10s or 100s of hours into games like Shining Force, Breath of Fire, Chrono Trigger, Illusions of Gaia, etc. Now I get bored of games after a few hours :(

ekianjo 4y ago

> Try to finnish Mega Man or Super Mario 3 (without using the cheat pipes). I mean ... did any child actually manage to do it? Of course we did. We also didn't have hundreds of games to play at the same time.

CyanBird 4y ago
Correct, yeh, this is a matter of both a captive audience and the situation that a family might be able to purchase two or three games a year tops, so the games that they were able to acquire needed to have that difficulty in order to make sure that the players would not blaze through the content too quickly while at the same time ensuring that the hefty challenge was enough to entertain them for as long possible This is why rts games from my perspective will not return as we used to know them, they relied on that captive audience side of things, which faded away during the early 00's

mikebenfield 4y ago

There are plenty of very difficult old games, but Super Mario 3 is definitely not one of them.

oneoff786 4y ago
I agree. I would say it’s the easiest of the first 3 (4) titles

bproven 4y ago

I did (mega man), but as others point out it was a diff time. Basically we would rent the game (remember that lol) and play it solid non-stop for 2-3 days trying to beat it.

dole 4y ago

As a kid, I played Mega Man for months before I had the patience and muscle memory to beat the yellow cyclops boss, and a few seconds after the first time I beat it, our area got hit with a power brownout. Wily ended up an easier fight. Now that I think about it, at that point, I’d played countless hours of games on the Fairchild Channel F, Atari 2600 and C64, how were my reflexes back then?