My two:
Very cliché, I played Ocarina of Time a ton as a child, have memories of playing it both on N64 as a wee child and on game cube as a less small child. Never got past water temple even with the game guide.
Yu-Gi-Oh forbidden memories. Played the crap out of that game on play station, constantly playing on free play praying for the cards I would need to get further. I was never able to beat more than 1-2 of the high mages. Watching speed runs on the game it turns out I was never ever going to beat that game as a kid. The final 6 are just disgustingly brutal.
Pretty much all of them… I have so many memories of old 80s computer games where all I remember is level 1. It appears that I was terrible and perfectly happy with that.
Games were much harder when they only had a few kilobytes of space, the processing power of a cash register and you couldn’t just casually search for a video walkthrough to tell you why you were terrible.
That’s where the printed hint books came into place. Also, print magazines would attract tons of readers with walkthroughs. Also, many came with CDs full of demos. God, that was good!
I beat it as an adult but as a kid could never beat the Lion King video game. Spent hours on that game
Most NES games; those fuckers were TOUGH
Dragon Warrior and Ninja Gaiden were some of the first NES games I owned. I had it rough.
haha, I remember bugging my parents to subscribe to Nintendo Power, because they had a giveaway where if you subbed for like 2-3 years, you got Dragon Warrior for FREE. Like, new in box…I actually had two!
I guess that tells you everything you need to know about that game. They literally had to give it away. But I would have loved for a subscription to Nintendo Power.
I don’t know why but we had Myst and it never failed to annoy 8yr old me every time.
The most frustrating thing is that you technically don’t need to ever leave the original island to beat the game.
Battletoads
Earthworm Jim
Shit, I’m dating myself.
Oh Jesus. Battletoads is a really good example. Man fuck that hoverbike level. Holy shit.
I did that level so often that you could put in front of me now and I’d pass it.
