/vr/ - Retro Games

I'm currently doing the same and I must say, NES games have a lot of bullshit in them. They're fun, don't get me wrong, but most of the triumph comes from an immense amount of trial and error.

I don't think it comes down to skill, as I have performed harder tasks and completed harder games than the average NES title. It's just that the simplicity of a lot of the games combined with some downright sloppy mechanics means that your main challenge is playing until you beat it. There's no intelligence involved there, so I hate when people bring that up. I'd go as far as to say it takes less skill to sit there and memorize every pixel of the game because that's your only hope of not dying. It stops being fun for a lot of people, but for oldfags it's just the way they're used to playing video games. I say this as someone who grew up in an NES household. It pains me to see people pull the "you just suck" card so much here, it's honestly cringeworthy.