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The Nintendo Entertainment System and the FamilCom featured games so maddeningly difficult that the term "Nintendo Hard" persists to this day. Were there specific cultural, strategic, or other reasons that game designers chose to make NES/FC games so famously difficult?

by /u/The-Voice-Of-Dog in /r/AskHistorians

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