alianger

I make it clear on my site where I put my reviews that I use save states if I feel the need to to keep going with a game and that I generally don't use them excessively. I still play various newer games (and not necessarily easier ones, Hollow Knight or DKCR for example) without them, so I'd like to think I have a good idea of what a game would be like without them even if I did use them. I wouldn't say I beat the game in the same way as someone who didn't use them if there was a discussion like that, that would be dishonest.

When it comes to systems that I didn't play at all I try to check reviews and play other games to get a feel for what could and couldn't be done on that system.

There have been games where I wanted to play them on the actual system because emulation was obviously not as good, such as Parappa and Trauma Center (DS)

3 is both more important, impressive for its hardware and better balanced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGpFcHTxjZs

Alt+F4

Anything colorful with expressive characters and immediate visual and audio feedback to button presses is probably good. Not SNES but simple ipad games that let you sort things, colors, dress a character, open boxes or doors to find surprises and stuff like that could work.

Maybe you could play Wonder Project J with him, it's more complex but has nice animations. Or that Pac-Man adventure game

Max (swedish brand)

Aioli

Bearnaise

Suikoden 2 and Twilight Princess

Various games in my top 10 aren't even rated on there, apparently.

Warcraft 2 is still a lot of fun, I replayed it a few years ago and all these dismissive comments surprised me. One of the best OSTs of its era. You're gonna have to put up with some clunkiness though, like the 9 units selection limit, some pathfinding issues in narrow areas, manually casting each spell, stuff like that.

Warcraft 3 feels pretty modern, with several quality of life improvements, frequent scripted events and cutscenes during the campaign, and the RPG elements might make it more accessible for you. I personally prefer the 2D engine (it's easy to tell how big everything is and what will pass through what as well as get a clear overview of what's happening at any point) and speed of Warcraft 2 though.

Warcraft 1 though is very rough, you might wanna just check out the cutscenes or a retrospective video for that one.

Kinda, the cheat codes were put there by the developers. :)

That's fair but it's worth mentioning other options at least if they did make the game enjoyable for you.