Conference rusure::nintendo

401.0. "Solving games without spoilers" by BRAT::SMITH (Never say never, I always say.) Fri Jan 12 1990 12:42

    	It seems to me that so many of these games would be extremely
    	difficult to solve/complete without hints or spoilers.  Some
    	of the things you need to do or find, or whatever, seem to be
    	quite obscure.  Am I just a "super-lightweight" at game solv-
    	ing, or are games designed to stump most people?  Granted, I
    	wouldn't want to spend $40+ just to waltz through a game, but
    	some of them seem near impossible, and hence, extremely frus-
    	trating to solve without clues.  I was browsing through this
    	back-issue of Nintendo Power last night and read a "profile"
    	of a 14-year-old who said he had completed over 40 games, most
    	of them in one night!  I would assume, as with so many things,
    	that experience has a great deal to do with it, and after a
    	while you just know what/when/where to do whatever, but I can't
    	imagine blasting through game after game, night after night.

                                                                   Mike