I think modern games are making me stupid and impatient. When I was ten I could wrestle with a text parser for hours to come up with the right command. There was no internet to obtain hints or walkthroughs if I got stuck.

If I didn't know the name of Roy Rogers' dog, I had to ask every single person I met and spend days trying to guess the answer. "I know his bloody horse is called Trigger! What about the DOG?!"

If I didn't have a set of encyclopaedias at home I never would have found Carmen Sandiego, or figured out puzzles with Roman numerals. I have started playing some adventure games lately and am beating my head on the keyboard every two minutes. Hopefully it knocks some cobwebs loose.

JEDIT - Re-reading this post it seems I was always stupid and impatient. Or at least had bad general knowledge of cowboy actors' dogs names, geography and Roman numerals over X. It could be argued fairly successfully that I am just bad at adventure games. Modern games are making me old and rambling!