Nintendo Hard: Difference between revisions

** Inflexible [[Jump Physics]] render it impossible to accurately dodge attacks in midair, especially if your character's jump height is less than half that of Mario's.

 

 

The game mechanics that make a game "Nintendo Hard" were often transported from arcade games that required the player to [[Attract Mode|spend more money]] to keep playing after his character was killed. Except that when they got ported over to the console, there was no coin slot, leaving you stuck with a fixed number of lives and highly limited or non-existent continues.