We've booted up Kirby's Adventure (through the Switch's NES game catalog) and she's taking a keen interest in trying it out.

After a few tries, she even cleared the first level, through the time-honored tradition of flying over most of it.

This isn't quite her first time playing a console game because I tried her on Super Mario Maker a while ago, but after I designed a "shooting gallery" style level where she could stand in a safe place and pelt hordes of enemies with fireballs, she didn't really want to do anything else.

So this is her first real attempt at a "needing to move and do things" platforming game.

Oooooh! The training begins~!

And of course, I'm seeing almost none of it now because bitty needed to go outside. Yes, needed.

Update: eventually kiddo got tired/frustrated with it and mostly had us do the levels

But tbf, Kirby is hard

if you guys have Mario Party or Mario Kart my friend's 3.5 y/o loooves playing those with people!

(and kirby is hard)

After some discussion with her we're going to try her on Yarn Kirby

Since NES-era Kirby is, well, NES-era Kirby

I remember having that Kirby game for the original Gameboy and never beating it

Yeah, I remembered Kirby being one of the more kid-friendly franchises but forgot that there's still some serious difficulty there.

I have the theme from that forest level stuck in my head with perfect clarity right now 😂 I kind of want to find a rom of it..

But good luck to kiddo!

that's so cute

Barbie - C64 full playthrough as a 4 year old kid this is what I played on my uncle's Commondore 64...it had voice acting and blew my mind back then

Barbie - Commodore C64 or maybe this link will work

there's Dark Souls hard, and then there's NES hard. NES hard games are worse than Dark Souls tbqh. that said i don't blame kiddo for going "here you do it" lol

Reminds me when I was that age, we rented an NES and they had taken Legend of Zelda...as a kiddo I would just grab the sword from the old man, reset and repeat becasue I was afraid of going out in the areas and getting killed after lmao

plurk stop changing stuff to icons

god that reminds me there's a game that came out recently that's supposed to make dark souls seem like easymode?? saw a gamer yter vid titled something with 'I play Dark Souls to relax' and then basically traumatized by the new game

lol

There's Nintendo Hard and then there's just Asshole

Soulsborne is just finding the right timings, but NES hard is just... this game is impossible even 32 years later. i still can't beat half of my NES games.

(That being said I very much respect the kiddo because one of my first presents when we got Mario 3 was a Game Genie so it makes it a little more tolerable when you are a kid and have infinite lives)

I realized I have the three Ninja Gaidens on the NES and there's no way I'll ever pass them

lmao RIGHT.... i got the Disney Afternoon Collection a while back and while i can still down Chip n' Dale in like, 20mins, i still can't pass Darkwing Duck. that game was terrible lol

Yeah, I was going to say NES Ninja Gaiden is at the top of my list of "games I haven't played but know mostly for its reputation of having insane difficulty." I've never played Dark Souls so I couldn't comment.

Darkwing Duck has amazing music tho

My difficulty scale for games I have played tops out at I Wanna Be the Guy, and only slightly lower that is Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero and its sequel.

Then there's like...SILVER SURFER

Amazing music

it does indeed have amazing music! it's just... HARD lol

1 shot and you're toast

Tim Follen man

"Tim Follin we need a theme for Pictionary" "I got you"
Nes Pictionary Soundtrack

(The game is actually really fun to play with a kiddo if you want to try guessing objects, some of them are outdated like 1980s phones tho lmao)

Nes: Silver Surfer SoundtrackThis is also Tim Follin

Bloodborne: Ludwig the Accursed, Holy Blade Boss Fig... a dlc boss for Bloodborne, definitely... not kid-friendly for later aha. it's all about body horror but Ludwig is... he's a time. he's not Orphan of Kos, but he's up there. bangin boss theme though, one of my faves.

Bloodborne especially is all about abusing iFrames and dodging at the right time to counterattack... but you have to learn the boss's patterns first.