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

[EpicEnergy 22,082]

I like when posts mention the old days. Those days had way better video games than today.

Let me give you the many levels I would always get stuck on as a newbie gamer on the PlayStation 2. By the way, I played old PC games before then (like Armor Games), but I never got stuck on levels because they were often easy.

Here are the video games I got stuck on in my childhood. I played them on the PlayStation 2.

Note: I never used walkthroughs or watched videos for these games, so I had to do it on my own without any help.

"Medal of Honor: Rising Sun": I got stuck on the third campaign mission. You had to guide a friendly tank to a checkpoint, but I never got past the first ambush because I was inexperienced at FPS games and fighting bots. The game in general was very hard, as you couldn't regen health and there was many bots. I am proud to say that I completed campaign many times on very difficult settings, but only after I got past that third mission which took me over 50 times (at least it felt that way) to complete. After I got past the ambushes, it took me hours to find out where to go after I escorted the tank to last checkpoint. What a nightmare as a child (I was not a teen either).

"ATV: Off-road Fury 2": I could never get past the first race. After hours and hours of trial and error, I found out all you had to do was a power-jump that let you jump higher on ramps and hills, and that helped a lot since ramps and hills are on every race track. I played that game so much in my childhood because it was so much fun.

"Sitting Ducks": Don't judge me, it was a great game for kids after all. I think it was based on a TV show, but I can't confirm. This is one of the first console games I ever played, so I couldn't even drive right because I had no experience on console. I couldn't play the game at all because I hadn't developed console skills, so it took a few weeks to actually progress. I also could never unlock the second area (the tennis court I think?) because I didn't know how memory cards worked so I didn't save the game, so I was stuck on the first area for a few months.

"Destruction Derby Arenas": I got stuck on the first destruction arena in the campaign in the first section, which is unlocked after you complete several campaign races. If you lost, I think you restart back to the first race in current section, so it took a few days (or a week or two) to get past section 1, arena one.

"Medal of Honor: Frontline": It took a few days (maybe a week or two) to get past the very first part of the very first mission. I could not get past the beachhead.

"Hot Shots Golf 3": Defeating a bot opponent was way too hard for me as a kid, so it took a few weeks to actually win. I had to learn patience and accuracy, and I had neither before this game. It had me raging multiple times.

"Sonic 2": (I might have got the name wrong, can't remember) This game...trial and error. I could not get past Chemical Planet, it was really hard for younger me. After weeks of trial and error, I final succeeded. I never had a problem since. I played this game on a different platform, on a mobile arcade thing (I can't remember the precise term).

I got stuck on many more missions in other games, but I normally got over them after 3 hours or so, and they were not as hard as the ones I previously mentioned.

I was way too stubborn to quit a game if it was too hard, which is why I spent weeks on getting past all levels. I am proud to say that all the games I mentioned, I have completed regardless of difficulty, or at least progressed to the very end of the campaign or very, very far into the game since some didn't have no end, or the end required the highest skill to complete like Sonic 2 where you has to start over if you died too much or quit.

Come to think of it, playing these hard games as a kid helped massively in developing great skills as a gamer. I guess this is why I can't play on anything less than max difficulty on modern-day games, because anything less than max makes the game seem too easy.

Edited August 21, 2018 by EpicEnergy
added a few thoughts

[Misty Shadow 7,084]

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 1,471]

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 15,927]

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 1,281]

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 11,118]

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 4,129]

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

[Pr0m4NV14 837]

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

[Midnight Solace 5,129]

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 4,832]

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 28,537]

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 4,116]

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 6,463]

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 12,983]

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

[MidnightFire1222 1,682]

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 18,007]

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 28,780]

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 7,367]

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