I don’t think I complete most of the games I buy at all. I did manage to complete about 30% of the games I bought last year though, which is the best I’ve ever done, so that’s something.

I’ve completed Mercenary, but on the Amiga, not the Spectrum. Came close to finishing Total Eclipse on the Speccy, but I think it crashed or something.

But yeah, games these days are, generally, designed more to be do-able than they used to be. Not necessarily easier, but less frustrating, less reliant on lives and having to start right from the beginning when you die. They’re also a hell of a lot longer, on average, too. Most Speccy games can probably be finished in under an hour – glitches aside, you ain’t going to be completing many current titles in that sort of time.