About two weeks ago I made a thread where I talked about how I never really ever played any video games and I only use...

Portal is my go-to beginner vidya. Try that.

Dark Souls

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It's impossible man, keep trying and maybe you'll see the ending for yourself.

However, if you're not doing it on original hardware it's not quite the same experience.

i think farmsville might be more up your alley

I'm not that old but for this site I'm basically a living skeleton. during the 70s the only video games i remember were barf colored squares flashing incomprehensibly that sounded like your tv was having an aneurysm. during the 90s is when i remember them actually getting mainstream attention with like sonic and 3d video games. I thought that the 3d ones were kinda interesting but they gave me headaches when I would watch the demos.

yeah I found that pretty early on in world 1-2. thats the only way I was able to make it that far.
I just looked it up. It looks fascinating but I don't have the proper controller for a game like that and it would definitely make me throw up
3d games are a no go, at least for now.
I'm not that old lmao

Move ahead to Mario Bros 3, which is one of the greatest classics in gaming and refined the old-school Mario gameplay to perfection.

You'll appreciate that unlike the first game, you can continue from the world you got to if you run out of lives.

chip n dale rescue rangers on the NES

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Try playing Ristar.
It's a simple platformer, don't know if I would call it beginner friendly though.

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This. If you liked SMB1 at all you should just play SMB3 next.

I actually can't blame you for getting filtered by SMB
The game is way more difficult on modern displays. The game's way easier on an old CRT thanks to the lower latency and all that.
Try Super Mario World. The difficulty is more getting good at the level design rather than the now-obtuse twitch movements

Οkay Ill play one of these two then come back to mario 1 just looking at them mario world looks much more interesting so im gonna play that one then mario 3

also is there a reason not to play mario 2?

There are 2 Mario 2's
There's the Japanese one and the American one.
The Japanese one was made for players that had mastered the first game. It uses mostly the same engine and assets, but the levels are devilishly hard. It was a unique way of making a sequel japan was toying around with at the time, making the same game as before but with levels that were extremely hard, geared at people that had gotten really good at the first game. Avoid it. It's fun but only if you REALLY got good at SMB 1

The American Mario 2 is actually another game from Japan with Mario characters slapped on. It's a great, fun game. But it's a bit obtuse for a beginner maybe. Generally anything on the NES is going to give you a rough time if you aren't already good at games. Mind you these titles were clunky as developers were learning entirely new hardware and entire concepts of game design, AND they were made hard due to being of the arcade era, alongside kids expecting games they could dump a thousand hours into. And you don't fit a thousand hours of content into a tiny storage space unless those hours involve a TON of trial and error bullshit

Play SMB 2 if you want. Maybe the GBA remake of it actually.

This was one of the first games I played and it was a really cozy time. I did actually beat the game which I swear is something only .000001% of people can say. Shame it never got a sequel. Gamecube is a great starter console IMO, has the easiest 3D mario game, the easiest Zelda game Wind Waker, lots of "easy" titles but also some of the most fun in their respective series. Paper Mario TTYD is a perfect starter RPG.

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That's very interesting. Do you then think I shouldn't bother with NES games and just start with the 90s games. I'm downloading mario world and an SNES emulator right now what other titles should I check out?

Yeah sorry 3d is a no go right now. The visuals give me a headache and I don't have a controller to play them with

Have you tried playing a Zelda title? Specifically the 2D ones. Also, how do Visual Novels sound to you?

Adventures of Lolo is a good starter NES title.
You might like Adventure Island. Crystalis is great. Uforia The Saga is fun. But I'd definitely just focus on SNES while you're starting out. That's the point where developers starting building games with more player friendly stuff like frequent save/checkpoints, explaining things better, etc.
Just google what type of game you want to try on the SNES and look at some lists, watch some gameplay on youtube and give it a go.

Nah Mario 3 actually made it worse by making every level a dumb gimmick

No all I've tried so far is mario 1 and I'm gonna play mario world later today should I also download the A Link To The Past rom incase mario world is too hard?

Visual novels look boring as fuck

Nah A Link To The Past sucks. Just play the NES one, but make sure to have a strategy guide pulled up for some of the more confusing parts of it.
Again the games were designed around kids playing it for a thousand hours so it wasn't too crazy back then to have a random bush that looks like all the rest that needs to be burned to progress. But it's a way better start than Link to the Past

Honestly you’re better off playing Mario All-Stars. It’s not as unforgiving as the OG NES version, plus it has the actual Super Mario 2 from japan