Difficult games from our childhoods - What was your first controller-chucking moment?

[eDove]

Spyro: The Eternal Night comes to mind for me. I remember it being absurdly difficult, so difficult my gamer father couldn't even play it. It took me YEARS to beat it and once I did, I realized how short it and it became strangely easy after that.

My husband is making me play Jak 2 for the first time and what a bunch of fucking bullshit that game is. I loved the first and third one, so what the hell is going on with the difficulty spike? I haven't even reached THAT part yet.

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

For me its the lion king game on the SNES

that game was horseshit

 

[meinkraft]

Super Mario 64 DS.

World 8 was really difficult, particularly in the second tower level. You are standing on a constantly shifting block going up. Took me months to finish that level.

 

[Win98SE]

The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for the NES. Bullshit. Never made it past the first few levels. I have zero nostalgia for that brand of "oops you miss-timed a jump by 0.3 seconds! You're fucked!!" level design.

 

[Niggernerd]

•Batman,Ninja Gaiden, Journey to Silius, Monster Party, phantom fighter, battletoads and DynoWarz for NES
•Comix Zone,Vector Man, sunset riders and ecco the dolphin for Genesis
•Resident Evil Gaiden, Spiderman and Pokemon pinball for GBC

 

[Psychic Espeon]

Lion King on Sega Genesis.

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

Super Star Wars for the SNES, even in the easiest difficulty, that game can get pretty hard at times.

 

[Bongocat]

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

Super Mario 64 DS.

World 8 was really difficult, particularly in the second tower level. You are standing on a constantly shifting block going up. Took me months to finish that level.

Did you mean to say New Super Mario Bros.?

 

[Mongo0o]

Spoiler: Boomers

Spoiler: Millennials

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

I remember having problems with Megaman X when i was a kid but years later when i was a teen i finished it with 100%.

 

[ditto]

Pac Land for the Atari Lynx. Shittiest game with painful controls and a migraine inducing soundtrack.

 

[Red Hood]

Revenge of Shinobi was hard but damn was it cool as shit

 

[Blacklight]

I remember the final level of 007 Golden Eye: Rouge Agent being fucking impossible. Giving every enemy a fucking one hit kill hitscan weapon.

 

[Drain Todger]

I was 12 when this came out. My thumbs still hurt from beating it.

 

[eDove]

This game is a treasure. I got so far and I fell all of the way down to the beginning. I haven't touched it since for my sanity's sake.

 

[verissimus]

Top Gun on the NES. Yes, I was like the AVGN and didn't know how to land the plane.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

i remember this game walling me hard. second game as well.

also played donkey kong country at my cousins house and remember that being hard as nail.

 

[Mnutu]

Spyro: The Eternal Night comes to mind for me. I remember it being absurdly difficult, so difficult my gamer father couldn't even play it. It took me YEARS to beat it and once I did, I realized how short it and it became strangely easy after that.

My husband is making me play Jak 2 for the first time and what a bunch of fucking bullshit that game is. I loved the first and third one, so what the hell is going on with the difficulty spike? I haven't even reached THAT part yet.

Jak 2 is legendary bullshit. I’m convinced that it’s not a very well designed game, though that might be residual saltiness over the fact I’ve never beaten it (legitimately not my fault, disc was scratched to hell and refused to play beyond the 75% mark). Out of curiosity, by “THAT” part do you mean the first tank section or the Flying Fortress? Some people found the Manhood tests difficult, but that fucking tank section is complete bullshit.

The first Sly game is also pretty hard. It’s not too bad until you start doing the challenge runs. I only ever did the first level because I quickly realized that they don’t fuck around. God bless whoever designed those runs, they had them timed to the exact tenth of a second you needed to complete them. To this day, I still get anxious thinking about that fucking engine room.