so, I’ve been playing my switch at work a bunch this week, and I have been playing all the OG mario games in the all stars pack on the SNES emulator. and holy shit these games are hard. like they start so fucking easy, but then the games are like oh? you think you’re hot shit? and just throw the most bullshit gotchas to kill you out of nowhere that you have no clue of unless you died there before or have played this game before.
so, boomers, how the fuck did you beat these games when you were like 9 in 1987 or w/e. there’s no way kids were expected to beat this shit right? have I just been raised on participation trophy ass zoomer games from the late 90s and early 2000s???
Just a shitload of reattempts and very gradual memorizing. You have to understand that we didn’t have the luxury of switching out to a different game and try something less frustrating so the only thing you could do is try, try again
You didn’t. Games of that era were based on arcade games. Arcade games want you to lose so you spend more quarters. Also, games had very limited storage space. To stretch the play time they made the games punishingly hard so you’d have to play the same levels over and over. They gave you limited lives for the same reason.
The way to beat them is to memorize every detail of every level then beat your head against it til you git gud.
Honestly gaming has advanced so fucking much since then.
:I-was-saying: git gud
It’s a holdover from arcade cabinets, game over/[insert coin] increases difficulty to a ridiculous degree. I remember Abe’s Odyssey blowing my mind with infinite lives lol
