I still remember beating Zelda 2....and Ninja Gaiden 2, both at the age of 9 years old(it was awhile before I had any new consoles, the first being a Genesis when I was 10(born in June of 88) from my dad, complete with all the Sonic games and Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine, plus Sega Channel.....loved that)
I was so proud, cuz NG 2 was mind numbingly difficult for me at the time. I can breeze through it now, but then....Argh, got so frustrated. When I finally beat it, I stood up and started celebrating like a maniac, cussing at the tv, and ended up accidently throwing the controller in mid victory dance through the tv screen.
*laughs* My mom was so mad, but I didn't give a s**t. I was SO proud of myself for beating that game. I was grounded from video games for a week, but she forgot to take away my GBCs(I had 2 , one for regular play, another for when a friend came to spend the night and forgot theirs or so I could trade Pokemon with myself(I had this obsession about the trainer name needing to be mine on ALL the Pokemon I had, even if the ID # was different)) so I played some Mario and Pokemon Yellow(I WISH they'd release Pokemon StormYellow as a 3DSWare or VC title.....that would be sweet)