Not to sound like an old coot (though I am) but there's at least one aspect of gaming that used to be a lot harder. If you got stuck on an adventure game puzzle in the 1980s, you couldn't just ask the entire world for help: the internet hadn't been invented yet. You just had to bang your head against that puzzle until you figured it out—the closest thing to the internet was the occasional pay-per-minute hint line or asking the developer for help via mail. Not email, old-fashioned mail.
If that wasn't bad enough, '80s adventure game puzzles were notoriously illogical and you'd have to twist your brain into a pretzel to figure these darn things out. Today, with puzzle solutions just a Google search away, it's difficult to experience that true desperation.
