Ahhhh, spending entire saturdays and sundays trying to complete games in one sleep deprived sitting, with your Sega getting hotter and hotter till the power adapter got white hot.... and then your parents telling you to go to bed, and you only turn off the tv, but not the console. Wait till they go to bed and then carry on.
And then wanting to kill anyone who 'accidently' touched the reset button while you're on the last level....
Oh, and the hardest game I think I've EVER played was the original Prince of Persia.
(And Assasin's creed is basically a poor man's Prince of Persia. AC was so incredibly repetitive I almost cried. I liked the bits where you could jump off the towers into the hay though....)

