I grew up in an environment where you'd be pretty much forced to believe the opposite - that fighting games are hard as hell. We had a couple of places, each with a pair of arcade machines in them, in the neighborhood, and some hundred kids all having to compete for those 4-6 slots in peak hours. In fighting games you get to stay on as long as you keep winning so the competition was ENORMOUS. We had games like KOF 97, KOF98, Samurai Shodown II, Real Bout FFS, etc. Boy !! I miss those days. Mind you this was back in the mid-late '90s. But that's how I was introduced to fighting games. Either you got good really fast or you lost money and had to stand in long queues.