The oldergames are harder. You have to think and sometimes the puzzles in them became a group project. At my house we do still play some of the older games and the five of us have to sit and think together to get through some of the puzzles.
gotta agree with WarBuddy it's being done for casual gamers i just went back to playing old games and i realized how much worse i am at them then when I was much younger.
Hardest Old Easy Between the old and new Medium difficulity New games but the old games were awesome and challenging i still can't beat world 8-2 in Super mario brothers and i still didn't beat legend of zelda 1
Older for sure back in the day they were meant to be hard so you would be infuriated and have a drive to beat it smash your controller and yell TAKE THAT MUTHA***** nowadays they are meant to be easy so you don't break things and bragging rights are completely non existant... even ps1 though they got a little bit easier than stuff like SNES etc.