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Child me was less focused when it came to strategy but that motherfucker was damn good at platformers.

real

Kingdom Hearts II moment

Me trying to beat Malak In Kotor At seven years old. I asked my dad to edit the INI file to make it easier for me. When he said no, I flipped him off.

Me with Rayman 2. I couldn't beat the final level as a kid, and it was a cakewalk when I retried it recently

Usually those games were SUPER difficult so you wouldn't get bored playing them. Finishing them often was pretty much impossible for that reason. And they were for adults.

I'm the opposite. I'm much worse at games now then when I was in highschool and middle school

Sometimes, my mom wonders how I learned to type fast, and I cannot explain text adventure video games. (I was playing old ones in the 90's, I am not actually old.)

misread

For me is backwards. "Why do I suck at this game now?, I ruled it"

Sometimes it goes the other way "How tf did child me beat this!?"

I have the opposite of Kid me: " I can beat this game!" Adult me: "How the hell did I beat this as a kid?"

pikmin 1 game felt like a horror game as a kid, i would run out of time just because i was so scared of losing the guys i needed to progress. now its my comfort food game.

Adult me: "this video game is impossibly difficult" Child me: "oh adult me will suck at this game"

Nah, games in the 80s and 90s were actually harder.

Reverse for me. I used to beat Super Mario 3 no problem. Now it is harder than all the Souls games combined

Me playing Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 after no longer being 7-10.

SNES Lion King still hard 🤷🏻‍♂️

Find it to be a reverse. I had skills when I was young…

I had a funny inversion of this when I got my adhd diagnosis a few years back: I could tell my prescription was working because I was able to finish the original Kid Icarus for the first time

Middle aged me: no, child me was right

Child me: "This NES Friday the 13th is awful! NOTHING MAKES SENSE!" Adult me: "Fuck this fucking game"

I've had the exact same experience in a ton of games. But I've also been upstaged by kid me in some areas of games. Especially in spots where multi-player with my younger brother would have made the game easier than playing by my adult self.

I'm replaying Halo: Reach currently, and haven't played since it came out. I feel like a lore accurate Spartan now. I'm moving like:

I had that epiphany on a bunch of my old games I thought were ‘super hard’. I just ignored most of the fighting because I thought grinding was boring, so I went into boss fights horribly underleveled xD

I dunno. Child me could beat the Lion King and Simpsons SNES games and I don’t think I could now.

This is me playing Madden ‘94.

*connected. 😑

Adult me sucks too, though >>

Unless that game is Myst, that game was just impossibly difficult. I bought the iPad version a few years ago and went "oh my god, why is this so hard."

Child me: "this video game, OG Ninja Gaiden, is impossibly difficult" Adult me: "I said what I said"

Just a YouTuber who plays and beats old impossibly hard games.

🤣

Better than the reverse. When you can't beat a game you used to have no trouble with as a kid

child me was definitely better at video games than I am

Alternatively, and somewhat optimistically: Child me: "this video game is impossibly difficult" Adult me: "here's One Weird Trick to get past that bit, now the impossible difficulty comes much later in the game!"

Wait until you get over 50. "Easy mode isn't cheating, it is supposed to be fun."

Adult me sucks too so... 🤷‍♂️

should have just "git gud"

That's how I felt about Klonoa 2 back then. And Crash 2 and 3...

Me but the opposite.

I remember 7-year-old me could never get past the first area in “Bowser’s Inside Story” because I didn’t know I could punch the boulder by the exit. I also couldn’t button mash against the piranha plant in Mario Party DS, but did so every time I threw a pokeball in Black and White.

Alternatively- Child me: This game is too hard! Adult me: Oh this game was actually shit!

For me it’s more “child me had no patience” Any game that was more than about 3-4 hours long never got played enough. It’s funny how I think of that as too short nowadays. Swapping back and forth between NES games was probably like kids and TikTok today.

Me when this happens

I got some points over young adult me, at least, when I beat FF9’s Ozma earlier this month. Only took three tries in one session.

Okay but sometimes it really is xkcd.com/255/

I say that about taxes and felony prevetion every day.

I have the opposite of this for platformers. I have no idea how I beat Vectorman 1 & 2 before I went to kindergarten.

Castlevania III is still hard for adult me, though

See also Top Gun for the NES.

Child me was better than I am now

My experience trying to replay NES-era Megaman at age 35 was the exact opposite 😭

I’m 46 now, so I do a lot of “36 year old me could have done this…”

PTSD, anyone?

I like to think the many hours of patience and determination child me put into games like Banjo Kazooie and Mario 64 prepared adult me for games like Dark Souls and Sekiro.

Adult me: "oh my god child me was cracked how did I do that."

I'm the exact opposite. 😂

Child me beat games I'd never have patience for today.

And yet somehow, child me actually beat Battletoads. One of life’s great mysteries, I suppose.

Yup! That was Little Nemo the Dream Master for me. SO hard as a kid! Easiest game I've ever played as an adult. XD

Exactly what happened to me on Terraria, played for the first time on Mobile and died on the first night and called it impossible. Now I go through it like it was just the wind.

Child me: this video game is impossible Adult me: yup, battletoads is in fact still impossible

Adult me: "Man this game is much harder than I remember" Child me: "I don't even know you"

It's quite the opposite for me. Child me wrecked Super Mario 1,2,3,World,64. Adult me takes longer and more tries to get through.

We rented Mortal Kombat Mytholgies: Sub-Zero, I couldn't figure out how to get over a railing. Spent all told 30 minutes on it, never touched it again before we returned it.

It's either this, or the complete opposite

Oregon Trail. Me as a kid never making it to the other side, me as an adult making it and going "how was I so bad at this?"

As a former kid who burned a summer vacation to wrap The Karate Kid on the nes, I must disagree.

think I will never beat Tintin in Tibet on Snes.

Pretty sure this game is still impossible.

Me with literally most games. Even me like 10 months ago.

Young Adult Me: This game isn't too hard. Old Adult Me: How the hell did I ever get through this?

Yeah I was pretty stupid back in the day. I’ll avoid saying how far back in the day.

I'm the other way round, I don't get it

That’s about right

People who say video games don't teach you anything obviously never played Souls or Nintendo. I learned a LOT about patience, problem solving and PERSISTENCE!

Me revisiting monster ock 10 years later

Mario and Luigi bowser inside story

relate. IME kid me was better at time-sensitive reactions but very very bad at analyzing mechanics.

i often ask the second question and then remember "ohh yeah, game genie"

Then there are those moments of "How did I do this back then without the walkthrough?"

😆 Unfortunately true 😂

me after replaying the first level of geometry dash recently

MITCH ? In suspension

I was playing through Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. I don't know how kid me got through the ice castle. Adult me took weeks to get through it.

Real as fuck

I do enjoy redeeming kid me. Like when i get to bring my childhood pokemon to actual tournaments. However i too am now a girl which would surprise little kid me, i didn't even comprehend that concept.

My version of this is replaying games I played as a boy but with the girl avatar slash name this time. Kinda feels like reclaiming my own nostalgia.

Speaking of Revenge Clears, any plans for them in the future?

Sometimes overthinking can be just as detrimental as underthinking 😜

Increasing age and decreasing hand-eye coordination is my guess :D

always fun to style on yourself. "git gud o wait you did!"

Adult me: Why are you playing children's games? Go do something productive, maybe support your family.

I've had a few cases, though, where I go to play a game I was great at as a kid, and even with hours of practice, I just can't play it as well as I used to. Arthritis, slower reaction time, worse eyesight. Growing old sucks!