midnightslasher83 asked:


I’ve been playing Mame for about two years now and the more games I play from my youth, the more I realize how brutally difficult they are and I’m just not having any fun anymore. Is this normal?

I mean, it takes me something like 30+ continues to complete a beat-em-up such as Final Fight, The Simpsons or TMNT 1 & 2. I know these games were made with the intent in taking our quarters as fast as possible, but most of them are unrealistic. I can barely get past the fourth or fifth opponent in 2D fighters like Mortal Kombat 2 or Killer Instinct and I’ve been playing games my entire life.

I don’t wanna lower each game’s difficulty setting as that would cheapen the experience for me. Does any of this make sense? Am I the only one finding every single different game I play to be brutally frustrating when just set to the “normal” difficulty setting?