gaming Levels you couldn't get past as a kid.

[Misty Shadow 7,813]

The Shell City levels in the Game Boy Advance version of Spongebob: The Movie. It was literally the only Spongebob game I got that I never finished as a kid because I just could not figure out how those levels worked. It's too bad I lost it, because I'm sure I could finish it now that I've beaten much harder games.

Even though it's not divided into levels, the final six boss gauntlet in Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories was something I totally struggled with as a nine-year-old kid. Did not beat the game for two years just because of how hard it was.

[Sunlight Glisten 368]

This goes way back but on the gameboy, not gameboy color I'm talking about the original. That Zelda game with the giant egg. I could never find the got dang flippers to cross the river... never did. I'll never know...

[Rainbow Dash 1,472]

I seem to recall it took me literal ages to beat the last boss in Majora's Mask. Couldnt get past a certain Golden Casino in Final Fantasy 7 until i discovered strategy guides where a thing.

[Iam 525]

Feeding Frenzy 2, level 42, first time I had spot a boss.

Zuma Deluxe - level 9-7, I couldn't imagine, how the balls would come not from out of screen and end in screen, but also from tunnel on the screen and go as reverse spiral.

[SolarFlare13 16,082]

Articuno from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Gruntilda from Banjo Kazooie.

 

Articuno: That Powder Snow was pure BS. It hits like a FREAKING truck!!! 

 

Grunty: I kept falling off the stage when I was trying to shoot her with eggs and she does SO MUCH DAMAGE!!!  

[Codelyy 1,286]

The main level I can think of that I never could get past was a level in Theme Park World (Called Sim Theme Park in North America)

I tried so many times but I'd somehow constantly go bankrupt every single time. It was only recently that I played again and discovered how EASY the level actually was. (It was the second Lost Kingdom level on the PS2 version of the game if anyone wanted to know)

[Ganondorf8 11,259]

That would have to be Level 7 in the first quest of the original Legend of Zelda. It would take me fifteen years before my best friend would show me the way to get through it and I couldn't believe that it was so obvious.

[Wandering Weirdo 7]

Eggmanland in Sonic Unleashed is the Dark Souls of Sonic levels. There is no reason for it to have been that long.

[Patty Thundersnow 4,155]

The boss level of Vicious Voodoo in Sly Cooper and the Theivious Racoonus. I was only able to pass that level once ever.

[Pr0m4NV14 839]

I could never get past the Instabul level of Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb. 

[Midnight Solace 5,132]

Halo CE's The Library. The Flood is a bitch, and the level itself is boring.

[ssj4gogita4 101]

Karnov (NES) and Super Ghosts N Goblins (SNES) had some levels that were near impossible as a kid later on in the games. Very frustrating.

[Dashy 4 Ever 4,835]

The last level in Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine.

That thing is Hella complecated.

Edited December 1, 2018 by Sondash Studios

[Sunlight Glisten 368]

Finding the got dang flippers to cross the river on the gameboy zelda. 

[Splashee 28,560]

I still cannot get through Toy Story for Genesis.

And I still haven't completed a single Special Stage in Sonic Advance for Gameboy Advance (why is it so impossible hard?)

[Vefka 1,499]

Lowrider mission from GTA SA 

I spent hours trying to hit buttons in right timing

[Sonic Shimmer 4,131]

I was never able to clear the special stages on Sonic the Hedgehog 1 and 2 as a kid.

I didn't get the best endings on those games until I went back and played them as an adult.

[Pastel Heart 6,466]

I got stuck on a LOT of the later levels in A Link to the Past and had to have my mom beat them for me... ^-^;

[Evil Pink One 13,505]

Growing up. I still couldn't beat that level.

[MidnightFire1222 2,059]

The first thing that comes to my mind are the Special Stages from Sonic Heroes in order to get at least some of the chaos emeralds and unlock the final story where the game's ending really is. God I sucked at them until I was older and stubborn enough to keep trying til I passed them.

[ExplosionMare 18,060]

On Mario Party DS, I always made my dad beat the Piranha Plant boss because I wasn’t fast enough to keep pressing A and keep my character in the air

[Steve Piranha 29,413]

On 8/23/2018 at 7:40 PM, Sunlight Glisten said:

This goes way back but on the gameboy, not gameboy color I'm talking about the original. That Zelda game with the giant egg. I could never find the got dang flippers to cross the river... never did. I'll never know...

Link’s Awakening. Never played it. Just a little on emulator. But left it before reaching the second dungeon.

[Ruchiyoto 49]

The Tower of Druaga (1984) from Namco was one of the hardest games I have ever played as a kid. I couldn't get past Floor 20 because I didn't know how to unlock the treasure on Floor 19, that wasn't until years later when I beat the whole game using a strategy guide on YouTube and other medias. I'm 22 years old now, and I feel great about it after completing the game.

The problem with Floor 20, if you don't have the Book of Light, then it will be completely dark and you can't see where you're going but you could still see the enemies and the main character. 

[ZiggWheelsManning 9,750]

Sonic 2 Game Gear version  The crab bug squid boss at the end of Underground Zone and the small screen space involving the steep hill.  But I was able to get past it  Had something to do with moving Sonic to the immediate left when the level started, then controlled him in certain areas of the level and exploited or took advantage of how the programmed boulders moved in sequence down the hill at me in the boss section on my copy of the cartridge  

[Clawdeen 12,189]

Sonic 3. Carnival Night Zone. It wasn’t till I was older till I figured out wtf to do with the Barrel. As a kid I’d get stuck there and die.

 

I have more that I’ve just now remembered

Gex 3, the Mystery tv, it wasn’t till I was older that I as able to get any remotes from that level. I also found it a bit spooky as a kid. The bears specifically.

Digimon World 3 for the PlayStation was pretty much me running around lost and getting KO’d.

Final Fantasy X-2. Wasn’t till I got older that I was able to beat the guardian beast . Then I got stuck on this wonderful boss called Bahamut. Ultimately for me to get stuck at the Magus Sisters and never beat the game. 

 

 

Edited January 31, 2021 by Blitzo