Yesterday I had one of my greatest gaming victories ever.

I defeated Ninja Gaiden 1 on the NES, 28 years after it came out in Europe!

The last level took me hours and hours of trying to beat.

Man was it so hard!

The last level is literally forged in hell and you have to memorize every jump and enemy action in the game to make it to the final boss.

But I just kept going and in the end, I did it.

Man, that feeling and the rush when that last Boss went down with only 2 bars of health left on my own health bar is hard to describe.

I think it's only a feeling gamers know and for me, only the older games can give that feeling in a single-player game.

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watching the end credits, even though simple as they were back then, still awesome

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For me, the newer games are often way too easy, too long and they take you by the hand too much or they are focused on multiplayer.

I don't find the single-player games challenging and I notice when I do try to play them I often get bored (I got bored playing RDR2, and I been looking forward to playing that for years).

The problem with RDR2 is that I don't have time to play RDR2 every day, sometimes I can't play for a week. After a week when I try to get back into it, I don't remember what's going on. What I was doing. What the 20 buttons on my controller do. It's too much work to figure out and I end up shutting the thing off.

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And the problem with multiplayer is that I am simply too old to be good.

When I play a game of PUBG with @ezzy sometimes it's not even about winning, it's about having fun.

When you try to get into a gunfight, you just know you will be facing a 9-year-old, with nothing but time to play the whole week, that has hawk-eye vision and a concentration that hasn't been shattered yet by years of drinking beers and domino pizza.

In other words, you stand no chance.

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It's still fun though if you don't take it too serious, which we don't.

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Older Games

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For some reason, gamers are always looking forward to the newest games.

But sometimes it's also nice to look back.

We do it with movies. I'm currently rewatching classics from the '80s and having a blast.

You can do it with games too and it's awesome if you can look past the graphics and focus on the gameplay.

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I'm not sure maybe I'm just going through a 30's midlife crisis and longing for some simpler times.

But I'm having fun though.

I was thinking about live streaming Ninja Gaiden on 3speak today if I get the chance.

I never tried the live streaming feature before so that would be cool if I can make that work.

I already worked on my thumbnail.

When Bianca saw it she said, WTF is that...

O well, lol, I think I look awesome!

彼の並外れた忍者のスキルで、彼はあなたにグーグル翻訳でこれを調べさせました。

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