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Can he beat a bunch of NES or SNES games? Does he have to keep his Nintendo on all week so his friends can resume playing next weekend? DONT UNPLUG IT MOM! Doe

by wil421 2y ago

Can he beat a bunch of NES or SNES games? Does he have to keep his Nintendo on all week so his friends can resume playing next weekend? DONT UNPLUG IT MOM! Does he have a near impossible level where the one random neighborhood kid has to come over and beat it? Did he have to buy GamePro or another magazine to understand how to beat something? What about that one unintuitive Sonic level on Sega Gensis? The one where you had to press down or up, can’t remember but we’d always run out of time. Don’t get me started on Battletoads or TNMT. Kids these days have it easy. Mom, hang up the phone you disconnected my AOL and I need to beat Pokémon Red. Get off my lawn.

garciasn 2y ago
My son is absolutely mind-boggingly good at video games compared to me. We played the Q1 port on the Switch and he had several maps mastered in a day, along with RJing, jumping in general, and aiming in a way which took me months to master. I apparently sucked at video games but he is definitely able to crush on anything I have thrown at him from back in the day, all the way back to NES on Retropie.
- wil421 2y ago
  I didn’t have the reaction time until I was a little bit older. Good for your kid! My kids are to young but they like watching me play Pokémon. I tried to show them Mario Kart on switch but they didn’t have the attention span to play. What games did you start with?
Suppafly 2y ago
>Kids these days have it easy. Sure but also a bunch of people in this thread have been vastly over-estimating how many of their peers actually beat a lot of these games. Plus modern games have plenty of stupidly challenging levels. I pretty much fail on any game that makes you make dozens of perfectly placed jumps in a row or walk across narrow platforms and end up having my kids complete those for me.
Klonoar 2y ago
Carnival Night Zone in Sonic 3 (& Knuckles) is what you’re thinking of. I once called the hotline as a kid to figure it out. If that doesn’t date me, I don’t know what does.
- aidenn0 2y ago
  I played through that game twice recently with my kids (this was my first time, it's my wife's Genesis). I didn't get stuck there and don't know what you're talking about. I must have accidentally done the right thing? In general I found Sonic 3 to be among the easiest 16-bit platformers I've played, and much easier than the NES games I grew up on.
  - Klonoar 2y ago
    The vertical floating barrel in Carnival Night zone required you to press up and down to influence the speed and movement - it was infamous back in the day for being "the thing" that people would get stuck on, to the point where many gaming magazines poked fun at it. I also played it later on as an adult though, and similarly wondered "holy shit, what was wrong with me as a kid" lol
aidenn0 2y ago
> Don’t get me started on Battletoads or TNMT. Fun fact: the NES version of TNMT was easier than the PC version, which was unbeatable without exploiting glitches to skip an impossible jump.

by wil421 2y ago

garciasn 2y ago

My son is absolutely mind-boggingly good at video games compared to me. We played the Q1 port on the Switch and he had several maps mastered in a day, along with RJing, jumping in general, and aiming in a way which took me months to master. I apparently sucked at video games but he is definitely able to crush on anything I have thrown at him from back in the day, all the way back to NES on Retropie.

wil421 2y ago
I didn’t have the reaction time until I was a little bit older. Good for your kid! My kids are to young but they like watching me play Pokémon. I tried to show them Mario Kart on switch but they didn’t have the attention span to play. What games did you start with?

Suppafly 2y ago

>Kids these days have it easy. Sure but also a bunch of people in this thread have been vastly over-estimating how many of their peers actually beat a lot of these games. Plus modern games have plenty of stupidly challenging levels. I pretty much fail on any game that makes you make dozens of perfectly placed jumps in a row or walk across narrow platforms and end up having my kids complete those for me.

Klonoar 2y ago

Carnival Night Zone in Sonic 3 (& Knuckles) is what you’re thinking of. I once called the hotline as a kid to figure it out. If that doesn’t date me, I don’t know what does.

aidenn0 2y ago
I played through that game twice recently with my kids (this was my first time, it's my wife's Genesis). I didn't get stuck there and don't know what you're talking about. I must have accidentally done the right thing? In general I found Sonic 3 to be among the easiest 16-bit platformers I've played, and much easier than the NES games I grew up on.
- Klonoar 2y ago
  The vertical floating barrel in Carnival Night zone required you to press up and down to influence the speed and movement - it was infamous back in the day for being "the thing" that people would get stuck on, to the point where many gaming magazines poked fun at it. I also played it later on as an adult though, and similarly wondered "holy shit, what was wrong with me as a kid" lol

aidenn0 2y ago

> Don’t get me started on Battletoads or TNMT. Fun fact: the NES version of TNMT was easier than the PC version, which was unbeatable without exploiting glitches to skip an impossible jump.