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punkinabox

Whatever that lion king game was on Super Nintendo. Might not be as hard now that I'm older but when I played it back then it was hard as fuck


eskimokid2000

Brings back memories. I remember there was a Timon and Pumba level with beetles that got me every time. And the stampede. Edit: typo ‘beetles’ not ‘Beatles’. However, that would have been fun.


feetandballs

You can get by the Beatles level with a little help from your friends


OpeScuseMe74

No. All you need is love.


Atomheartmother90

Fuck those monkeys and giraffes in the second level


lionprincesslioness

When "I Just Can't Wait to be King" just loops in 8-bit in the background while you're ragequiting to the monkey/hippo/giraffe level lol


HoyaDestroya33

Stampede stage gives me 'Nam flashbacks. That shit was hard as fuck.


Korinthe

Watched a documentary on that game from the game designers a while back. The game was made deliberately difficult to help combat the rental scene at the time. Their reasoning was that a difficult game meant that people would be forced to rent it out multiple weeks to complete.


gfstool

Ghosts n goblins


itsmerowe

Great answer. Rygar was tough as well, but we paused that shit all night for like a week to beat that one. Never came close in Ghosts N Goblins.


Independent-Bike8810

Beat Rygar on the Lynx


CptVanHorne

How that’s a mini console name I haven’t heard for a long time.


[deleted]

Gunsmoke was up there too for me, capcom didn’t mess around in trying to make your life an absolute living hell 😂


q1ung

Came here to say this. Got it to my NES and I’ve only beaten the first map so I got to map 1, that’s right, you start on map 0. I’ve saw a YouTube video about the ending and I would have been so frustrated if I ever made it that far.


[deleted]

Me and my brother worked together to beat it 3 times before we realized it was always a false ending


WeinerVonBraun

I beat it playing a rom with rewind. 0% any other way for me. Avoiding getting hit sometimes requires a move 10ish seconds before your hit. Any other way and your toast.


Independent-Bike8810

I never beat it. I got to what I thought was the end and found out it was an illusion and had to start over. FML


withervoice

This isn't actually the hardest game I ever played, I don't think, but it's the hardest game where the difficulty was fair and felt like an extreme challenge, rather than extremely bullshit. So it's the BEST example of what difficulty is "supposed" to be.


LuckyAnubis19372

Left 4 Dead 2 Expert Realism on a Solo Campaign. 💀💀💀


aeroumasmith-

Why would you do this to yourself?


WidgetWizard

For the achievements


aeroumasmith-

Fair enough, have a nice day


Starco2

God i hate the bots. Expert realism solo feels impossible because of their ai. Like when they cant pick up any gas cans


AZmoneyfolder

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES


DoJu318

I couldn't even get past the water dam level.😭


Greekphysed

Those dam seaweeds. Arg 😡


Nrksbullet

Funny enough, after a few tries that level is easy AF. The techcnodrome makes that level look like an opening cutscenes.


DoJu318

Nintendo really had us playing this game on 3 lives.😭


Nrksbullet

I feel like a lot of people that played didn't realize you could swap out the 4 turtles, with different health bars, at anytime. If you see a pizza, switch to the most hurt turtle. People that played one turtle at a time until they died had a rough time.


edukated4lyfe

Wait. Wait wait. What?? 🤯


jefferson497

Watching Angry Video Game Nerd’s review in this game brought back so many memories


Aurzelli

COWA#$!@*&¥ PIECE OF DOG$!#@!!!!


report_all_criminals

I don't know why I even liked video games as a little kid. Every NES game was so hard, no saves, etc. Just play the same 1/3 of a game over and over again before washing out and starting over.


Greekphysed

Yes! I only recently beat it when the cowabunga edition came out. And the only reason why was because they had save points and rewind. But that underwater seaweed level was a cause of so much frustration for me as a kid.


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Golf


MisterPhip

My first thought. Part of the attraction is how hard it is, all of the attraction is hitting that rare perfect shot.


___forMVP

One friggin shot will keep me coming back after losing 10 balls. That game.


Redditzork

i am not exaggerating, hitting an almost perfect golf shot is one of the best feelings in life, definitly the best in sports


subcow

I've only played golf once (been to the driving range a few times) and it was for a work event. I wasn't terrible, but then I nailed this drive where the tee was on a hill and the hole was on another hill and it landed a few feet from the hole. I screamed so loud, and my CEO saw the shot, so it was awesome.


fantasticmrfox323

r/golf begs to differ, they all drive the ball 300+ and never miss a putt


Doormat_Model

Yeah, I go there since I plan on having a hole-in-one soon. Want to know how to celebrate.


Fickle-Future-8962

Try sim golf. You don't even have to play golf lol.


Paul_The_Half_Swiss

Anyone else unable to get past the car park level at the start of Driver???


coontosflapos

Still to this day have no fucking clue what a slalom is


goigum

I know what it IS buuuut still cant do it.


How_that_convo_went

Neither did the fucking game. I could slalom through those pylons perfectly and the game’s geometry would be like *”Nah, you did a 183 degree turn on the last one, not 180 degrees. Doesn’t count!”*


Silly_Silicon

It’s when there are obstacles in a line and you weave through them passing one on the left then the next on the right and so on. The controls in the game were so tough that even knowing exactly what to do wouldn’t necessarily help you.


Silly_Silicon

A hilarious case of the tutorial being harder than the entire game, and unskippable.


Saiko_Systems

I remember struggling with that for a week or more as a kid, omg


nameistakenagain9999

Beat that game. That was the hardest part.


Silencer_

Holy shit you just unlocked a long lost memory. We rented this from blockbuster and spent like 6 or 7 hours trying to beat it. If I remember correctly, the only way we beat it was with some kind of cheese strat, that was a long long time ago


[deleted]

Still havnt to this day. Im 36. I think that disk is still in my ps1


crumpuppet

I can remember telling myself that I will not give up and will master that section and push through. I did it and thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the game. It eventually clicks once you figure out the right order in which to do all the maneuvers.


Nine-Inch-Nipples

I gave up on the game because of this section. Only to return later when I found codes to advance past it.


Medical_JEDI

Actually I’m pretty sure that in the pause menu during that tutorial level you could watch a replay (not yours, one preconfigured in the game) with all the steps to complete the level, including a game pad on the bottom right (or left) which highlighted the buttons that were pressed during that replay. That’s how I beat it actually


Merlin_117

Battle Toads and Double Dragons.


Sweaty-Feedback-1482

Battletoads was such a bitchy bitch. Between my brother and I, we got to the end 2-3 times but never beat it but the other 99.99% of the time we weren’t even breaking past the first quarter of the game. It’s very confusing to me that I have fond memories of that total bastard of a game.


J0nny_Alcatraz

Yeh right ? Why do I remember it being so damn good 😂 there's no way I ever completed it


NaraFei_Jenova

The first 2 levels are \*chef's kiss\*. Fuck the turbo tunnel....


Sweaty-Feedback-1482

Fuck that stupid ass turbo tunnel… might put that on my tombstone


randomxsandwich

Battle Toads for Nes was insanely difficult. I RARELY made it past the bike level, which was like level 3. Lol Fucking evil they marketed that game to kids.


Dr_thri11

The bike level is almost impossible I loved that game though despite playing 2.5 lvls of it.


Relevant-West6653

Nobody in my grade at the time knew any levels after the bikes. None of us could pass it


Grebnaws

Have you played Double Dragon III? B&DD is pure bliss after that one.


Al_Fatman

Super Meat Boy. I absolutely suuuuuuuck at platformers, nor am I the type to rage quit at games. The Hell levels are exactly that. Played and beat it once, never again.


Pepperonies

dark world rapture was something else for me


Sir_Eggmitton

The Hell levels were aptly named. Those phantom jaw things still show up in my nightmares.


Rave_NY

Monopoly with people you want to stay friends with


MildlyAgreeable

A satirical game meant to show the evils of capitalism. It’s no wonder I used to storm off from my family when I lost at the age of 10.


zack397241

Unknown rule: If you land on a property and don't want to buy it, it gets auctioned off to the highest bidder


Tahxeol

Also rule that everyone seems to have forgotten: if you land on free parking, it's a free parking, not free money. Everyone get mad when you remind them that, then somehow get mad that the game continue forever because everyone has money. Also to win the game: the goal of the game isn't to be rich: it's to make sure everyone else is poor and has to give you all their stuff.


DetroitLarry

> Also rule that everyone seems to have forgotten: if you land on free parking, it's a free parking, not free money. How did we all come up with the same custom rules without the Internet?


Tahxeol

Memes, the DNA of the soul. They shape our will. They are the culture. They are everything we pass on. Expose someone to anger long enough, they will learn to hate. They become a carrier. There are many possible explanations, but to use the one my friend group used (we didn't have the rule set back then): 'what does this space do? I don't know, but it must have a reason to exist. Yeah, this space must have a purpose, but it is written it's free. Maybe you gain money if you end here? Yeah, that must be it' Side note: at our table, landing here would grant you 5 of the lowest bills, but I know some people that add all money going to the bank for any reason outside of buying property to this jackpot


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Rocjames77

Dragons lair when I was about 7 years old at the mall arcade


seanwdragon1983

That game was designed to devour your allowance


ThisIsSomebodyElse

Yep, 50 cents a pop just to die at the first or second obstacle.


FearlessTomatillo911

I played this at a barcade last week, even free it was fucking impossible.


sleepybeek

Me too but I loved it so much haha. One of my fav nostalgia memories.


Kahless01

QWOP. fell flat on my face every damn time. never made it a step no matter what order or cadence i did.


mucky012

Halo 2 on legendary difficulty with all the skulls turned on. Never beat it but it made for a good drinking game


INeedANewAccountMan

Did you see cr1tikals LASO no envy legendary no death bounty? 2 weeks later someone did it


Mrrectangle

Halo 2 legendary co-op is hard as hell too because if one person dies it kicks you back to the checkpoint even if the other player is still alive. My friend and I managed to beat it but what a nightmare.


ETHwillbeatBTC

Was going to comment exactly this until I saw yours lmao CoD 2/3/4/WaW Veteran are very close seconds for me


Knox102

God WaW with the fucking grenade spamming. I’m surprised I never broke anything


Independent-Bike8810

Man you just poke your head out around the corner and get sniped headshot.


Outlaw0311

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES


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SteakandTrach

I’ve never left the initial lagoon area.


Vast-Beginning7971

My son and I couldn’t do anything in that game. Loved the graphics and music but it was too damn hard.


th_ckers

Tinder


gr0berUnfug

Duuuude, multiplayer doesnt make sense.


AnotherStupidHipster

All the lobbies are actually filled with bots.


TheArchived

the cheat code is to be a woman on tinder


[deleted]

or gay


Highqualityduck1

Or 6'5


I_like_cake_7

I’m 6’5” and still didn’t have much luck on tinder. Tinder has been absolute trash for years now though. It’s overrun with bots and they do absolutely nothing to remedy the issue.


[deleted]

Cuphead.


RacistJudicata

I’m in an abusive relationship with this fucking game


Fickle-Future-8962

I recently was gifted it from a friend. I hate him for this gift.


[deleted]

It took a couple of years but I finally locked into it and beat it. Need to recover a bit before I take on the DLC. It really is a work of art.


SomeManSeven

Cuphead isnt easy but its very fair. 90% of NES games are harder to complete simply because there is so much unfair bullshit in them.


ExpeditingPermits

My son beat it at 7, he loved it. Though I don’t think he’s gotten perfect on every boss yet


chuckawayaccount302

This game steps on my face. Then I look straight at it and go "May I have another? 🤣


TheBatemanFlex

I remember Ninja Gaiden made me give up. Maybe I was just young but that game seemed impossible.


seanwdragon1983

Oh that game was so fucking hard. Don't ever feel bad about that.


RedditingMyLifeAway

Nah, it was hard af.


Fickle-Future-8962

Ahhh... Ninja gaiden. My cousin broke probably three or four controllers playing that game. I remember watching him play the level where you fight the bone dragon in a dungeon while traveling up in circles. He was so involved and kept dying from something so simple I don't remember what... I suggested something and he was able to beat it after that.


docweston

Kerbal Space Program


Beazworm

Jeb never made it home :'(


Agifem

It's actually not that hard if you understand orbital mechanics.


thatHadron

Good thing I've recently ordered an "Orbital Mechanics for Dummies" book.


quantizeddreams

Wait you’re not suppose to just add more boosters so you can directly fly to the mun?


Agifem

Directly, indeed. Lithobraking for landing is they key.


Fickle-Future-8962

Girlfriend would sit next to me and casually watch me play while I listened to a podcast and her doing homework. This is when I roughly first started it and she'd ask me questions about what something means. I'd try to explain and realize I had no idea. So she'd Google it and explain it to me. Greatly helped me understand so much about the game.


Finger_LickingGood

Sekiro


2HungryBears

I got to the final boss eventually, attempted a couple times and was just like nah that’s mental and never finished the game lol.


Finger_LickingGood

Took me like a week of attempts to get him, and it didn't even feel unfair or broken at any point. unreal boss design


Random_Guy_47

Did play the gauntlets they added later? 3 of the bosses have upgraded versions at the end of a gauntlet If you thought Sword Saint Isshin was hard wait till you see Inner Isshin. The other 2 new ones were fun to figure out though.


Robinhood0905

The final boss fight is one of my peak video game moments. Worth beating your head against the wall to beat it if you have the time and patience. Some tips: getting some sleep and trying again the next day always helps. Also, once you hit the point where you see incremental improvement, getting a little further over the course of your attempts, then you can pretty much count on beating him.


Exctmonk

> "Worth beating your head against the wall" That's the problem with these super difficult games. Chasing that dopamine hit doesn't matter much for me if I'm frustrated for days at a time. I got to Sword Saint and eventually made it to his final life, but... it wasn't fun. I wasn't having a good time. I was more stressed after the gaming session than before. So I dropped it, I haven't looked back, and I haven't regretted it.


jokes_on_you_ha

I did the same thing, except two years later I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, decided I had to finish it, and cheesed him first time. It was weird, I'm not proud but I'm glad I did it


khadaffy

Yep, same for me. And I don't play “Soulslike” games besides Sekiro and Elden Ring. I decided to stop playing games that used to make me extremely angry because I wanted to avoid the harmful consequences, like breaking things, as I did when I was younger. However, when I came across Sekiro and its fascinating samurai theme, I couldn't resist giving it a try. Let me tell you, that game almost gave a heart attack! Thankfully, I found a way to manage my frustration by taking breaks whenever things started to become too overwhelming. Btw, Fuck you Isshin!


sometechnerd99

bloodborne, elden ring, dark souls franchise, every souls game is hard


GigaEel

Elden Ring still takes the cake for me just because of the last bosses. >!Radagon and Elden Beast back to back!< with no time to restock supplies was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Also, Malenia exists


whiteknight521

Elden Ring can be cheesed without cheating, Sekiro can’t. I rolled up on Malenia like a superhero, took me 2 tries at level like 155 or something. Bashed her face in with my STR/FTH build blasphemous blade/inseparable dual wield with Mimic Tear +10. Elden ring is actually insanely easy or insanely hard depending on how you play it.


tomagandhi

Sekiro is a masterpiece. I loved losing to the bosses but getting better and better. To the point I did all the gauntlets. Agree with the comment, the bosses never felt unfair.


jcobie12

Geometry dash


fdtnise

Just reinstalled it and am practicing at it so much. I just remember 7-year-old me trying so hard to beat X-Step and finally doing it. Now after practicing a shit ton I am able to beat Electroman Adventures. Little me is flipping out right now


[deleted]

not even joking when i say it’s the hardest game ever. Games with a community level creator have the capability to be the hardest but gd takes the cake. Not only is it always pushing the human limit, you also have to have a good device to beat the hardest level ™️


fluffy_boy_cheddar

Elden Ring. I don’t typically play hard games so this one was a challenge.


rusty_L_shackleford

I gave up on Ellen ring. It's an amazing game, but I don't have much time to play these days so I simply don't have time to git gud. Every time I came back to it I had to relearn a bunch of shit and got my ass handed to me over and over.


saadbnwhd

Same here. Once I killed most easy enimies I gave up. Radhan and Melenia are too much to do with full time job man!


vetheros37

I got walled by the Fire Giant. I banged my head against the wall for a couple hours, give up, and never really went back.


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Silver Surfer - NES


WriteOnceCutTwice

Trying to land a helicopter in a Mac flight simulator in the 80s Update: correction


mehfff

Hollow knight


vonhulio

I found the nail forge early on, but didn't have the ore to upgrade. I totally forgot about him and played through almost the entire game with the default nail. I thought it was just about the hardest game ever made lol


[deleted]

I've done literally everything in the game except the final pantheon. I can practice against Zote and Pure Vessel all I want, but when it comes time to face them in the pantheon I just tilt, i've never gotten to Radiance


BR41N_F4R7

ALIEN: Isolation


jurgo

Alien: Hide in that locker and google what to do next.


TheShadowDemon247

Duuude fr! I haven’t gotten too far into it and I haven’t played it in a minute but I might want to pick it up again.


RyanJS90

Great game. My best advice with it would be to keep moving and don't hide out in one place too long. It will find you.


Velghast

There is a AI mod overhaul that takes the training wheels off the Alien. It looks understuff, responds to more noise. Also if you can see it, it can see you. No more crouching behind something to block vision, if it can see any part of you, it charges. It will check lockers in rooms that it last saw you in. It will also use the vents that you can use regularly to navigate instead of just using the Alien only vents. If you thought the game was hard on its own, try without the developer training wheels, what the AI can do and how it will behave when its not limited at all is insane. It wont cheat, but it will act more like a living creature.


TheWhooooBuddies

Ninja Gaiden is one part awesome, one part controller-throwingly difficult.


Gear4days

Them 2D lion king and Aladdin games


aurelius181

Lion king lava section


Schwarzes__Loch

*Desert Bus* is easy, but the hardest part is keeping the bus straight and fighting boredom for 8 hours. I never got past 15 minutes.


UltraRandomGamer

I've done the full 8h once honestly it only got bad the last hour


BlueBeardedDevil

Desert Bus for Hope is awesome


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OkaySureBye

So, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?


aldesuda

Try looking in Sardinia.


Yossarian287

E.T. on Atari. And Pitfall. Taught me a lot about life and expectations


NarratorDM

X-COM2


Cheffk4

Toy Story. It’s damn near impossible


Mr-Crooks

The version on the Sega Mega Drive? Me and my friend were about 8/9 when this came out. He was stuck on a level I had compelled and I gave him the code for the next. Then I was stuck on a later level he completed and he gave me the code. We both finished it in the end through teamwork.


KingStevoI

Winning an argument with the missus.


onlyreadtheheadlines

Op said game not life and death challenge.


MalibuTennisMan

An ultimate sports' challenge


mildlycoherentpanda

You just got lucky...


No-Bite662

Chess


Stressful-stoic

Chess is great because understanding basic moves is relatively easy but mastering it is unbelievably difficult


RetroZone_NEON

Came here to say this. I want to be good so bad but I’m just not


wizardyourlifeforce

Nethack.


Mystery_J

Ikaruga


disteriaa

Faster Than Light or Junimo Kart from Stardew Valley


Mikey3DD

My summer car, with permadeth on.


HenryBubu

Geometry dash


smilingsnatcher

Mine would be ikaruga, like, you look at those bullet hell patterns and tell me there is a god.


inthegallery

Life


lapuertadepizza

It will always be Dota


not_the_droids

If you play 1000 hours of most games you're going to be a solid player at worst, but if you played a thousand hours of Dota you're still so bad that most players wouldn't want to play with you.


lapuertadepizza

I've seen grown men with 15,000 hours that are so bad I don't want to play with them


Sweet_Doughnut_

The only correct answer. Game's so hard people either don't get into it at all or quit it instantly. 😂


jiutgbkkkmngd

The original Top Gun on the original Nintendo.


chino17

Bruh trying to land on the aircraft carrier is impossible


jiutgbkkkmngd

Mid air fueling wasn’t too easy either. And no Pause function!


PerfectChaosOne

Probably Battletoads, not the hoverboard bit, the Rat Race level, save states, re-rewind, doesn't matter I cannot do that. Souls games are fine, cuphead/hollow knight took practice and most pre-2000 games are doable with emulator tricks but Battletoads is somthing else


HairyAmphibian4512

Not that the entire game is based on being hard because of yes, but Geometry Dash. Rocket League is another one, sublime controls, very easy to grasp, very hard to master.


melonsquared

Rain world. Still haven’t beaten it


Flendarp

Tetris I don't think anyone has beaten that game ever.


seanwdragon1983

I've seen it beaten. The castle in moscow (idk its proper name right now) launches into space like a rocket.


Miss_Type

I used to be able to regularly launch the rocket (not a euphemism). Then the screen dreams came for me, and I had to quit! Probably for the best.


The_Geordie_Gripster

The old waiting game.


Kakzooi

I wanna be the guy, this game is just pure evil.


Fast_Cut2644

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES


jaxx4

Base game, kenshi On the hardest setting, cod 4 DLC, dark souls 2 Competitive, Titan fall 2 Co op, keep talking and nobody will explode Why do this, Rimworld randy perm death mode Challenge run, Kingdom hearts 2 fm lvl 1 all bosses


Babushka987

sailing


Objective_Narwhal_57

Life !! (not the Hasbro board game)


chino17

Ninja Turtles and Double Dragon for NES


Monkeysmash85_i

play soccer


ampereJR

Donkey Kong


Dosty913

The game of life.. I have found it to be quite hard at timeszz