Oh, don't get me wrong. I was a 19 years old who LOVED playing Mega Man Anniversary collection on the PS2. 6 NES games, 2 SNES and a PS1 game. And 2 arcade games.

I would often get wrecked by those.

It's not a bad argument. It's true. Most kids could never beat those games. It was usually the minority of them. The cool kid who beat Contra. Etc.

Why do you think Metal Slug games with kids playing them meant a gold mine for the arcades? Because kids would die every fucking 2 minutes.

Another example: Castlevania III I imagine out of 100 kids who tried it, only less than 5 beat it. Brutal game.