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Villain_S_Fiend posted...

My hat's off to you. I'm pretty sure you're a bit older than me, so I'll use my "I was just a kid" card.

Yeah the bulk of the NES era where the majority of all my favorite games came from that I played so much of was from like 1987 to 1990. 11 to 14 years old.

I think that is why I have such a big disconnect when I see where people constantly talk about how hard games like Mega Man, Mike Tyson's Punchout, Ghosts 'n Goblins and some of these games were and by no means am I acting like some elite gamer but I found many of them to be average difficulty and not that hard.

So it always weirds me out when people are like "I was the only one in my friend group who could beat it" or they say they still haven't beat it to this day or how is was some huge accomplishment. I think it is because they had to be a lot younger or something. Again I'm no elite gamer at all. Totally average. And there were games I found difficult like Ninja Gaiden and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Blaster Master. I completed them but they were difficult and took me a lot of practice.

So yeah I definitely think age plays a factor. I was 11 when Top Gun came out.