Topic: I realize I'm not a retro player

Well, some people here grew up playing the Atari 2600 too.

Yeah but that's like 40 years old, the GBA is a little over 10.

But you're still old right?

Every game mentioned so far in this thread is not hard to beat. Even Zelda II.

True, Zelda II is just bad

How can anyone make a post in a forum called Retro and NOT get a response from old people?

(Who, by the way, are probably way younger than myself).

Well, the first game that I ever played was Zelda II. I had no idea what to do or where to go. Really, I just didn't know how to play games back then. I haven't played it since then, but I really want to try it again.

@Waluigi: I heard somewhere that the requirement for a game to be called retro is about 10 years or so. Can't remember where I heard that though.

@FlameKian: Well, there is no governing law stating what is and is not "retro." I don't like the idea of going by years because it starts to get messy with different games launching at different times during a single console generation. Going by Console Generations it gets easier. But that is just a personal preference. I wonder what NintendoLife counts as Retro and not Retro

Well, further complicating things, many would consider much of the GBA library to be inherently retro, as it was heavily 2D platforming and such while the gaming landscape had largely moved on to polygons and 3D worlds.

@Meowpheel: Save states make it a lot more fun and enjoyable.

Everything before the Wii is on the retro side of the site.

Feel old that I grew up playing the original green Game Boy.

I do think that Fusion may not be the best choice for first Metroid, again due to the limited ability to backtrack for missed upgrades. In the other games, if you search hard enough you should be able to find enough hidden upgrades (bomb/search EVERYWHERE) to become much more powerful.
Super Metroid and Zero Mission are probably more accessible (in ZM, when you come across a recharging Chozo statue, it will also mark goal points on your map, though it won't spoil what is there. If that is your thing.)
Even Metroid II, I don't think was that bad. (yes, many would complain because it doesn't have auto-mapping. But at least for a game without in-game map, I think they did okay for balancing it between having an exploration element while still having a linear structure so you don't get TOO lost. Which is good since it was the first portable game and they probably realized you might want to play the game in places where you don't have paper to map the game out on your own. )

I don't think 2D style or 3D style classifies a game as retro. If thats the case would you classify Shovel Knight as retro? How bout NSMBU, Rayman Legends?

Shovel Knight and NSMB are quite simply meant to evoke the feeling of retro games. Specially the first, which is "retraux", fake retro.

Rayman legends also follows the "origins" wave as a 2d platformer, but much more stylized than the other two games.

@Tasuki:
lol like hell i dont use save states.
i have to these days in order to push ahead and get a game beat in order to move on to another game that requires a wii/wii u vc save state of sorts lol

@ogo79: Say it ain't so. You have just crushed my image of you. I can never look at my @Ogo79 shrine the same way again.

It's not that @ogo79 needs to use save-states ... he chooses to use them so that his awesome-sauce can splash in the face of as many games as possible.

I still look impresively young so... Yes, I'm old >:[

Yeah, your problem is definitely not the difficulty.

Its the tedium, you can't stand the tedium a lot of those old games had when you died. Going back and doing the past 5-10 minutes of what you already did just to get another crack at the boss. That kind of tedium is definitely one aspect of retro games I do not miss.