Actually, much of the older games, especially those in the 8-bit nintendo category, are infamous for how frustratingly difficult they were. Games nowadays are a cakewalk compared to a lot of the older ones.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell