/vr/ - Retro Games

The mutt versions of NES games were indeed too unfairly hard. The Japanese versions had perfectly fine difficulty though. The best example is Castlevania 3, which is unplayable garbage if it isn't the Jap version. This was the case because companies were worried about consumers beating the games in just one rental, so they cranked up the difficulty in these games to prevent that from happening. Literally artificial difficulty. Game renting isn't allowed in Japan, so they didn't need to worry about that.