It's fucking retarded bullshit you basically have to 1CC this game just to beat it because the minigame to get 1ups is stupidly fucking difficult. Even reaching it is a pain in the ass, but bouncing around like a spastic trying to grab 50 rings before falling out the maze is near impossible for me
>>11396264Git gud then.
>>11396264nigga just get ringsas long as you have rings you're barely at any risk of losing lives except for bottomless pits (which there aren't many of, and are mainly concentrated on two stages) and spikes, easy to avoidcollect those 100 rings, fish for extra lives out there, it was a games for kids bro.
>>11396264I just use the level select cheat to get back to the stage I was on after I run out of lives. I’m convinced this is how non-autists were expected to see the entire game.
>>11396286Fuck off, kids had all summer to play for 6 hours a day, that's 400 hours to beat the game. Fuck off with this "hurr durr kids beat it"Kids are literally better at this stupid muscle memory crap which is why they're best at learning languages and instruments, plus they had tons of free time and few games to spend it on
>>11396316>I can't approach the mindset required to beat the game back in the day, the mindset devs designed their game around, therefore the game is flawed
How hard is it to hang on to a single ring MF’er
>>11396316Tbh there is some truth to what you're saying. But also it's Sonic 1, just play it for a week and you'll get there, even if it's harder than 2-3
>>11396328Holding one ring goes out the window when you reach Labyrinth Zone. The stage that takes all of my lives every single time. I could probably beat Sonic the Hedgehog with one continue if it wasn’t for this garbage ass area.
>>11396264LMFAO Get good zoomer. I was only 9-years-old when I beat this game in 1991, with all the emeralds and heck I've gotten so good that I did 1CC this game with all the emeralds and 0 deaths.
>>11396383Once you learn the layout and the dangers ahead of you, it's easy to beat Labyrinth Zone. Heck I didn't even need to get rings for emeralds in that level because I had already gotten all 6 emeralds before reaching Labyrinth Zone.
>>11396316>kids better at languages love how this myth has been debunked a billion times for decades now yet still persists
>>11396421>le deboonked by factcheckers!!!Fuck off, it's just mere coincidence kids can learn languages easily while adults struggle
>sonic is too hard >zelda 1 is too hard>mario 64 is too hard>etcIt's embarrassing how the retro games board is like this. You guys would shit your pants if you played any computer games.
>>11396702old boomer PC spreadsheet shit is some of the easiest games around. Arcade games (1CCs) are by far the hardest
>>11396702What's a difficult computer game?
Sonic games are save state games
>>11396264There's 1 ups everywhere, and special stages (you have 10 chances at them) give you effortless continues
