I respectfully disagree, video games definitely used to be harder. Developers had to compensate for technical limitations and didn't want you blowing through their games, now a days they tell you exactly where to go and what to do as if giving you a map weren't enough, it's condescending I tell you. Not to mention the fact that pretty much every game in existence gives you infinite continues, remember how exciting it was to have to conserve lives and how satisfying it was to get further each time you played the game like a boss.
But I still think video games are better today, storytelling has come a LONG way.
Plus beating games used to earn you bragging rights amongst you friends.
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