When I was a kid back in the 80´s games were bought like this: you looked at the cover and hoped for the best. Quite often the game was crap, but because it had been so expensive I didn't dare to say it to my parents. So I just suffered quietly and played that awful game a lot more than it would have otherwise deserved.:evil:

If the game was good then it was also a bad thing: I played it several hours at a time so I also finished it pretty quickly. So according to my parents their money was thrown away, because the game was over so fast. For this reason I had to play that good game through multiple times before I dared to tell my parents that by the way: I finished it.

This may be one more reason why us NES kids have such warm memories about Super Mario Bros., Zelda, Mega Man and Metroid: They were good games, but also lenghty enough to have a long lasting value.:|