Quote Originally Posted by jordandavid View Post
and A Boy and His Blob. what kid has any idea what to do in that game???
I think it's the opposite actually. Most adults (who haven't played the game before) would either rush to GameFAQs or quickly give up on that game. The only way any of us ever figured that game out was by being a little kid with a lot of free time, and playing the game over and over where you just mess around until you figure things out. At least, that's what I did. If was playing that game for the first time today, I'd probably give up on it after about 10 minutes.

I think that goes for difficulty too. As a kid, I had a huge amount of patience for ridiculously difficult games. I would just keep trying for hours. Nowadays, I still enjoy hard games, but it had better have damn perfect controls and clear objectives. If something came out today that was like Castlevania 1, with its poor jump controls, slow response on switching directions, and inability to jump off stairs -- and many deaths resulting from these -- I wouldn't give it the time of day. But as a child I mastered that game.