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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.

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    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.

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      I have the same memories of playing the Commodore 64. I can’t think of a single game I was any good at, but I remember playing the shit out of them.

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    I beat it as an adult but as a kid could never beat the Lion King video game. Spent hours on that game

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        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!

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          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.

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        I remember DW being really hard when I was a kid on my NES but I played it emulated on my phone a couple of years ago and it wasn’t hard at all.

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      Huh. I could’ve sworn I never had an expansion pack, but now I’m wondering how I ever played / beat that game. A quick Google search says it was required and nearly capped usage of the additional 8MB, too. TIL.

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    Daggerfall. I played that game to death and didn’t even make it past the third or fourth quest.
    Eventually I’d give up and just wander off to do whatever I felt like. I must have visited every major city and country, but never set foot in one of those annoying dungeons :)

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    GTA 3 / Vice City. My brother had a PS2 and would let me play. I never bothered with the story / campaign, I just liked to wonder around, steal cars, and drive. I enjoyed using cheat codes to spawn tanks and get full wanted level and outrun the cops.

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    The Water Temple was a nightmare of a level. Easily the hardest point in the game. If you stick with it, the everything that comes after it seems relatively straightforward!

    That being said, having finished the game multiple times many years ago, I played through Breath of the Wild then went back to Ocarina of Time, and it felt very dated. Lots of nostalgia, but the control system is that of a very primitive game by today’s standard for open worlds.

    As for your question though, The Lost Levels in the Super Mario Allstars game. I’ve never gone back to it after all these years, might be worth trying again now with fresh eyes :)

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    For me its factorio. I always start, get into problems, realize I fucked up the layout and am thinking ‘better just start fresh’. So I have a couple hundred hours in the game, but I never completed it.

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      I mean I guess same with rim world and mound and blade warband 😅

      But cmon now. All those games have a way to win, but winning isn’t the point!

      Mine craft is pretty similar where if someone says they have played 1k hours and never killed the ender dragon it’s not like a skill issue. Just an inclination issue.

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      Was there an actual end? I just kept getting different space ships no matter how high I scored

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    Vagrant Story was extremely confusing for a kid that just started learning English as second language, but I really loved the character designs and tactical real time gameplay. Now I know there were several systems I didn’t understand but also the game itself hides it from you like your weapon slowly switching it’s damage type according to what you hit, and also the story is fantastic.