I don't know how anyone can get through Zelda 1 without a guide or without knowing everything ahead of time. There's just so much required stuff hidden around. Did they expect people to bomb every wall and burn every bush?
I feel like a lot of games of the era were like that. Maybe it was a way to get people to buy the official Nintendo Power guides or call Nintendo's 1-900 number tip line. It's like the DLC of the time; instead of holding back extra maps or characters until you gave them extra cash, they held back the ability to beat the game until you bought their guide.
Once upon I time before the Internet, every kid on my block were around my age and played this game. We put our heads together and took many years before one faithful day we beat it! With my hands no doudt. The puzzle today are legendary smart man like there are clues in game that tell you how to beat it. No guides no help. Just clever kids with huge imaginations. The game may not directly tell you what to do, but that's what makes it an adventure! It's like sex. Nes is like having sex.
The only reason peeps today think these game seem hard to some is because everyone is so fucking free to the slightest challange that dark souls is considered too hard for gamers today. There is nothing difficult in putting your mind to something, there is nothing stress full about having a goal.
NES games are easy ounce you figured out there puzzle
Like in battle toads. It's an easy game once you undderstand it wants you to gain like 50 lives a level.
The emersion came from the experience of accomplishment and the deication of challange.
not wiggling huge tits and giving a thumbs up for every piss you forget to take. Honestly VGs today make me feel so pathetic I want to shoot up a kindergarten
If you played an Nes game today with the aims to beat it, you will without any help. Best gaming experience you could ever ask for <3 thanks Nintendo R.I.P
