Is Super Mario scientifically hard?
Classic Nintendo games are (computationally) hard
Mathematicians proved that games like Super Mario Bros., Zelda and Pokémon are, in a precise sense, extremely hard.
The team took classic games including Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Country, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid and Pokémon, and showed how to build levels that act like tricky logic puzzles.
That means deciding whether you can finish a level is NP-hard: as hard as some of the toughest problems in computer science. Your childhood struggles with that one castle were scientifically valid.
It’s not you. It’s computational complexity.