Games that were difficult in your childhood

Bozzler · 22 Feb 2019 at 12:32

R-Type. So much rage...

Deleted member 77746 · 23 Feb 2019 at 17:34

Asterix and Oblix - Sega Master System, currently playing this now!

rebel rebel · 5 Mar 2019 at 04:15

Minusorange said:
I was remembering back to my childhood of old games that were notoriously difficult at the time and I remembered Zarch which at the time I only got to play at primary school so no chance to properly learn it like you would a game you could play for hours at home but I always remember it being one of the most frustrating games I've ever played

What other vintage games did any of you struggle with or seem to remember as being hard ?

I have wondered for decades if this game was ever released. At my school we had the demo version that was called Lander.

Alright · 6 Mar 2019 at 14:12

Claw was really hard and even more fun! I kinda wish that game gets a remaster somehow.

J35T3R · 9 Mar 2019 at 19:06

Freddie Hardest on the Amstrad CPC464. Actually played it recently again and found it harder now than I did when I was 7/8!

At least when I was younger I managed to progress to the lower levels.

SLIPdiggers · 9 Mar 2019 at 22:12

I'm still trying to beat Tetris (Gameboy) on level 9-5 on a daily basis, I can do it on 9-4 every day but not 9-5.
RoboCop Vs Terminator (mega drive) was tough to beat with a cheat for 40 lives.. can't imagine doing it with the regular amount.
And Street Fighter 2 on Super Nes was hard to beat on regular difficulty. Not impossible, but certainly rage inducing.

SLIPdiggers · 9 Mar 2019 at 22:16

Ghouls and Ghosts

V_R said:
This game made me rage more than I care to admit.

+2.. I never managed to beat this either.
I still love playing it though. The music is an unforgettable classic.

cheesyboy · 13 Mar 2019 at 11:23

SLIPdiggers said:
I'm still trying to beat Tetris (Gameboy) on level 9-5 on a daily basis, I can do it on 9-4 every day but not 9-5.

Is that the setting where the second number signifies the junk you start with onscreen? Pretty sure I managed 9-9 in my early teens/tweens. You get a very nice shuttle-style rocket as reward

SLIPdiggers · 13 Mar 2019 at 22:42

cheesyboy said:
Is that the setting where the second number signifies the junk you start with onscreen? Pretty sure I managed 9-9 in my early teens/tweens. You get a very nice shuttle-style rocket as reward

Thanks for spoiling that for me..
Just kidding.

I did know that, however haven't done it personally yet.
9-5 is the top speed and height of geometric nonsense, I reckon i'll win by accident if I keep playing..

Jamesyboyjim · 15 Mar 2019 at 10:30

I'm the opposite nowadays. I was a much better games player as a kid as I am now I'm in my 30's.

Nowadays my eyes aren't as good not to mention I just don't have the patience anymore so I do not enjoy the challenge of a hard game, I don't mind not being able to fly through on one life but if a game is really tough and requiring many many retries I just completely lose interest which is sad to say actually considering I'm such a retro gaming fan.

SLIPdiggers · 17 Mar 2019 at 10:01

Played Aladdin on Megadrive, forgot how tough that game is, don't be fooled into thinking its a kids game!

How beautiful the sprites, animations and music are too! One of the best Megadrive games surely.

ricid · 28 Mar 2019 at 22:36

Exile on the BBC - it was surprisingly forward thinking with its mechanics - you couldn't actually die. On the other hand it gave you so little direction that most people probably never saw more than a few percent of the game (myself included until I cheated with a walkthrough)

8myers8 · 29 Mar 2019 at 00:51

The great escape game zx spectrum , could never get anywere in it ....

One Vision · 30 Mar 2019 at 20:42

Curse of Sherwood on spectrum hard even with cheats
Dragons lair on spectrum
Airwolf spectrum

Jet set willy spectrum

Donnie Fisher · 4 Apr 2019 at 18:39

I always struggled at a certain point in strikers run on the BBC Master.... I never did finish it.

Bbcmicro.co.uk

ricid · 6 Apr 2019 at 22:13

Yeah I'm not convinced I ever made it more than half way through Stryker's Run. Think I completed the sequel, but that was a very different game.

Double07 · 10 Apr 2019 at 07:49

Probably ghosts and goblins, but its still hard as nails today.

I was red hot garbage at point and click graphic adventures. I loved them and bought them all but I was awful at them. I would equate to the way I find crosswords today, I just get them like others do.

Didnt stop me loving them though.

OldComputerGuy7 · 20 Apr 2019 at 17:16

Exile for the BBC micro was pretty hard as a kid, was watching this play-through on youtube and it brought it all back, really amazing what they did with 32k of memory back then.

ricid · 21 Apr 2019 at 19:18

OldComputerGuy7 said:
Exile for the BBC micro was pretty hard as a kid, was watching this play-through on youtube and it brought it all back, really amazing what they did with 32k of memory back then.

Yeah it was nuts, I think memory was so tight that save game system saved to an area of display memory, which completely corrupted the on screen image. You then had to restart the computer and load up a special utility to read the save state back out and save it to disk.. Something along those lines anyway.

wesimmo · 21 Apr 2019 at 19:55

cheesyboy said:
Loads of C64 games were seriously hard. They would otherwise be so short that I guess they had to make them that way.

Yep, I can remember Raid Over Moscow and Beachhead on the C64 at my mates.

We played those games for hours and hours and I can't remember ever finishing either of them.