Games that were difficult in your childhood

Epic necro!

Vexr said:
Completely forgot about Dynamite Heady. Ended up watching this in part:


Most of it looked familiar, so I guess I must've done some sight-seeing cheating as a kid. Have to respect the lengthy ending sequence.

The Lion King was so difficult it was abominable. A level involving log jumping up a waterfall did me in if I remember right - had to cheat past that, and that wasn't even in the adult Simba phase of the game.
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If you are suggesting that Lion King is harder than Dynamite Headdy... you are simply remembering it wrong :p

Lion King was a doddle - granted those logs were a little tricky as a toddler!

I think I’ve decided that I’m going to beat Dynamite Headdy as an adult this Christmas.... no save slots. I am a sucker for punishment.

edit - that vid is the Japanese version which is supposedly way easier.... but even then it gives me anxiety lol
 
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almoststew1990 said:
The first mission in Driver when you're in the car park "proving your worth". I can do it first time now though, not sure what the big deal was!
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I'd completely forgotten about Driver. What a fantastic game (sadly ruined by one of the sequels). That mission was hard!

I also remember the real thrill of realising what a huge deal it was being able to finally get out of a car and run around, and that was thanks to GTA3.
 

Not necessarily that level but that game was pretty tricky when I was a kid.

Another game which actually brought me to tears when I was a kid was Killer Instinct on the SNES. I could barely beat the final boss, Eyedol. He used to do this weird stamping move that would gain him health but also damage you. I felt like it was so unfair :p
 
My first game on zx spectrum manic miner (the bug byte version) I never beat level 19 "solar powered generator". It had a random line that flickered around the screen depleting your air.

I still love the game a real gem.
 
Alien Breed series on Amiga. All hard, but Tower Assault was ridiculous.
Also Oddworld on PSX, I only recently finished this using save states in emulation!
 
For pure difficulty and frustration there are a few games that could have been chosen but at the end for me it has to be Shadow of the Beast 2 on Amiga, the difficulty completely ruined the game. If you managed to go to the left and make it down the tree branches without dying you were doing good.

Utterly unforgiving, perhaps 3 seconds of an enemy touching you is enough for a game over via a really long (yet cool) death screen that had to be loaded each time. Even with infinite health (ten pints) it was STILL really difficult. Make one mistake in a puzzle and that's it, you cant progress and because you have infinite health the only way to end the game it to reboot the system. Fall off a drawbridge, push the wrong switch, open the wrong door on the dog bit, mess up the see saw puzzle? same deal.
I finally managed to complete it with infinite health, a walk through, AND save states a few years back and it still felt like an achievement.

 
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The Main Event a clunky 10p/quarter muncher but fun and so hard.

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Gauntlet 2 is a pain. It's good sequel and a shame I haven't found a revision that doesn't take away the food. I know the Amiga and ST versions don't, but they are not arcade perfect. Great versions and I enjoyed the Amiga version very much as a teenager.
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ScotchHop said:
The Main Event a clunky 10p/quarter muncher but fun and so hard.

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Gauntlet 2 is a pain. It's good sequel and a shame I haven't found a revision that doesn't take away the food. I know the Amiga and ST versions don't, but they are not arcade perfect. Great versions and I enjoyed the Amiga version very much as a teenager.
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I can play that on my arcade cab, though I only have two sets of controls, so two player only (Unless I plug in USB gamepads).
 
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