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.

  • Dave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • hactar42@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Craig@lemm.ee
    15·
    2 years ago

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

      • _sideffect@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 years ago

        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!

        • hactar42@lemmy.world
          21·
          2 years ago

          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.

      • Burninator05@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

    • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    2 years ago

    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 :)

  • droidpenguin@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Que@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 years ago

    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 :)

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I could never beat the Harry Potter games because there are parts where you need to trace certain symbols at a certain speed to learn a spell which are required to progress through the game, and trying to get both the hand dexterity and mouse dexterity to follow through is worse than button-mashing levels.

    • Kage520@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

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