Is donkey Kong country actually considered to be hard? I used to wreck the fuck out of that game as a kid and never really considered it to be particularly difficult.
Really anyone that cut their teeth on NES games would consider most SNES games to be pretty fair.
There’s probably only a handful of NES games I can remember being able to beat. Chip and sales rescue rangers was one that I remember taking me a long time to get good enough to beat.
I could get to mike Tyson I’m punch out but never learned his pattern.
The hardest game I probably beat on SNES was Super Battletoads. I think I only managed it a few times.