As a stupid kid, it took so long for me to realize that you were suppose to create path for the rats. I’m talking years before I was able to pass the first stage.
Plok! for the SNES, it didn’t help that you couldn’t save either. Furthest I had gotten as a kid was like a level or two after the first boss. However, many years later I did end up beating the game finally (albeit with the help of save states), younger me would be proud.
Aladdin and Lion King. Also it didn’t really wreck me, but I had NO IDEA what I was supposed to do in Echo the Dolphin as a kid, so I got bored and gave up.
Games used to be hard as hell. Sometimes it was just bad design, others it was intended to milk quarters out of kids pockets, and others it was simply to make the play time longer.
Blastsr Master on NES – i could never get passed the water levels and never finished the game. That and Jackel.. my brother and I never beat the final boss.
Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out! We used to get so many blisters on our hands from this game. (I know you didn’t mean physically wrecked but I had to mention this one. Lol). But the other games we struggled with were: The Little Mermaid, Marble Madness, TMNT, Castlevania, and A Boy and his Blob.
Terminator 2 on snes. To this day I still can’t figure out how to drive and I’ve only seen the second level where you’re on foot once. Who makes a game with only 1 health bar for the whole game and no extra lives!!!???
Ghosts n Goblins. Only game I actually physically broke
Aladdin, lion king, super battle toads
Sunset Riders still wrecks me to this day.
Super Ghouls n Ghost was always a giant middle finger.
I don’t know why I remember this but home alone 2 on the snes used to really piss me off as a kid
As a stupid kid, it took so long for me to realize that you were suppose to create path for the rats. I’m talking years before I was able to pass the first stage.
Plok! for the SNES, it didn’t help that you couldn’t save either. Furthest I had gotten as a kid was like a level or two after the first boss. However, many years later I did end up beating the game finally (albeit with the help of save states), younger me would be proud.
Battletoads
It still does, but it used to, too.
A Tom and Jerry game on NES when I was a kid I couldn’t get past the first couple levels.
Back to the Future on NES
I still maintain that lion king on Sega was the hardest video game I’ve ever played.
Krusty’s Super Fun House…there was a point in this game when my 7 year old brain just said “nope”, and I would just watch my brother play instead.
I loved this game. SNES Empire Strikes back was an absolute nightmare, and I traded it in at a local shop nearly immediately.
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
The dudes with the Jason Voorhees masks and chainsaws, as well as the giant baby levels.
Bud the SNES Simpsons games are impossible.
TMNT on the NES. The Damn Dam
Toy Story on SNES. Never made it past the part where you’re on the skateboard toy.
Ecco the Dolphin on Sega was pretty much impossible for me as a kid, but I still tried!
Aladdin and Lion King. Also it didn’t really wreck me, but I had NO IDEA what I was supposed to do in Echo the Dolphin as a kid, so I got bored and gave up.
The first Ninja Turtles game on NES was painfully hard as I remember. The sequels were really good co-op beat em ups though
Games used to be hard as hell. Sometimes it was just bad design, others it was intended to milk quarters out of kids pockets, and others it was simply to make the play time longer.
I had this Road Runner game as a kid that used to stomp me out. Blades of Steel on any difficulty higher than the easiest one.
Blastsr Master on NES – i could never get passed the water levels and never finished the game. That and Jackel.. my brother and I never beat the final boss.
I was far too stupid for Twilight Princess.
Minesweeper
HOW TF DOSE THAT GAME WORK
I mean I know now but damn
Tied between Cobra Triangle and The Adventures of Bayou Billy on the NES. Punishing.
All the old Simpsons(except the arcade) games were hard as fuck when I was a kid.
Virtual Bart
This one.
And A Link to the Past…until i got a color TV. Then it made more sense.
The Terminator 2 game for the gameboy. I never got past that stupid robot that blocks the way on the first level. Screw that asshole!
Friday the 13th on NES. Never beat it.
Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Shit got so feckin hard at some point, I could never get any further.
Bart’s Nightmare. Fuck was that game to a young kid
The Lion King on SNES, still haven’t beaten it to this day….
Barts nightmare
Desert Strike
Zombies are my Neighbours.
Ninja turtles. Those games didn’t just make boys into men, they turned boys into legends.
Judge dredd snes the struggle is figuring out what do
Contra.
Mega Man. Always got frustrated and moved onto easier games.
X-MEN for NES was the biggest regret of my life and I still live with the absolute hatred for it. The first time I rage quit a game.
“Solstice” NES was a super hard game, 250 rooms of isometric perspective puzzles
*TWITCH* cthulhu on a frakking pogo stick the OP’s posted game still haunts me.
Bart vs The Space Mutants for the Master System was bad, but I recall there being another Simpsons game on that console that was even worse.
Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out! We used to get so many blisters on our hands from this game. (I know you didn’t mean physically wrecked but I had to mention this one. Lol). But the other games we struggled with were: The Little Mermaid, Marble Madness, TMNT, Castlevania, and A Boy and his Blob.
How is ninja gaiden not mentioned yet? That game absolutely destroyed me as a child.
Silver Surfer is soul crushing
Terminator 2 on snes. To this day I still can’t figure out how to drive and I’ve only seen the second level where you’re on foot once. Who makes a game with only 1 health bar for the whole game and no extra lives!!!???
14 year old me could never clear mission 18 of Cannon Fodder on the Amiga, because rocket dodging doors are bullshit.