50 points

Difficulty-wise, The Lion King on SNES. This game shattered my childhood.

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19 points

Made at a time where video game rentals were popular so they had to make games impossible to beat in 2 or 3 days.

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10 points

I can say it wasn’t any easier in the Megadrive/Genesis.

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3 points

The game was fun to some degree, just required an unfair time investment. The final fight was a memorably bad experience though. I was like eleven years old when I made it to the end and swear I spent almost a full hour clawing at Scar before I figured out that I wasn’t actually doing damage.

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3 points

Also very difficult, but fun on the game gear!

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8 points

I could never get through the 2nd ostrich riding sequence in the 2nd level as a kid. The rest of the game was fine, though, once I used the level select to skip ahead. Turns out, it was because my eyesight was shit and I couldn’t even see the correct obstacles on screen (I was trying to avoid the branches, but no it was pink hippos and bird nests the whole time, so my timing on the double jumps was always off). Replaying the game a couple years back when Disney re-released it alongside Aladdin, I found it still tricky, but doable.

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7 points

Battletoads.

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4 points

same tbh

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3 points

I forgot how many times my siblings and I tried to beat that

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45 points

Superman 64 was a hell of a mess

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21 points

Seconding this one. I was like 11 years old and it’s the first time I can remember being disappointed when getting a game. Went from like Mario 64 to OOT to Banjo to Superman 64 and hoo boy what a drop off.

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8 points

Same for me. It was my first flop I played and boy was it bad.

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16 points

You didn’t like flying through 150 rings?

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8 points

There are way more rings than that, and they’re actually the best parts of the game. It gets so much worse in the levels without rings. Awful combat, terrible puzzles, inconsistent framerate, and thoroughly unclear objectives.

Oh, and everyone’s favorite: escort missions!

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10 points

escort missions

Clark Kent must really have not made much money as a reporter if he had to walk the streets at night too

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6 points

Hard disagree. You just need to play it long enough for the Stockholm syndrome to kick in. Once it has its claws in you, you can’t stop playing it. Trying to figure out what makes this garbage puzzle box tick.

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36 points

Same as a lot of other gen-xers: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

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30 points

It’s a classic answer, E.T. on the Atari 2600.

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10 points

Custer’s revenge would have been an acceptable answer as well.

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5 points

It had misogyny and racism to push it over the top for worst game. ET was just an unplayable mess that disappointed kids my age. Custer’s Revenge is a borderline hate crime that should have gotten everyone involved fired.

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4 points

PacMan on the 2600 was pretty disappointing to say the least.

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28 points

That shitty mobile version of SimCity.

Took a beloved childhood classic (the original SimCity) and took a giant free-to-pay shit all over it.

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7 points

The app store is a massive pool of free-to-play shit.

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4 points

If you haven’t given pocket city 2 a try yet I highly recommend it

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4 points

Ooh, neat. TY!

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