Combing over my game library the other day, I found myself looking through a good portion of my NES games looking for something to play. I pulled out my copy of Mega Man and popped it in the system, only to realize after about 15 minutes that my gaming skills were no longer a match for Guts Man’s construction zone stage. This made me begin to wonder about modern games versus older titles; games like Resident Evil 5 and Gears of War 2 are tough, but when compared to titles like Battletoads or the aforementioned Mega Man, they’re almost a walk in the park.

While not every video game to come out in the NES days was terribly difficult (or even all that tough, in the case of some classics like Ducktales), it seems that on average, games have gotten progressively easier, giving gamers plenty of features that help the process of completing them, be it by giving them ample checkpoints and the ability to save, luxuries that old-school gamers didn’t really have 15 years ago. So, have games gotten easier, or is it just this nostalgic writer’s imagination?

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