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Tetris.

Tazmania for the Sega Genesis. I didn't like the game all that much but I didn't have a lot of choice back then. I don't think I ever passed the mine stage.

Jazz Jackrabbit

The original sonic the hedgehog! I could do green hills blindfolded, but the next zone (marble volcano or something) would always wreck me

Vagrant Story was extremely confusing for a kid that just started learning English as second language, but I really loved the character designs and tactical real time gameplay. Now I know there were several systems I didn't understand but also the game itself hides it from you like your weapon slowly switching it's damage type according to what you hit, and also the story is fantastic.

Rogue, never beat it, still pay it though...

Donkey kobg country

I'm not a gamer, but I got really into ff8 in high school. I tried a bunch of other rpg games back then too, but I could never beat them. I always got to a point where I wasn't strong enough to win a battle but didn't want to go back and grind, so I'd eventually give them up.

...not sure what that says about me as a person.

Most of them, I sucked at games in the pre-save era. I don’t remember if I ever got to 8-4 in Mario.

This doesn't answer quite what you asked, but what comes to mind is The Legend of Zelda: The Adventure Of Link for the NES.

I had a Game Genie as a kid. And for some reason I could not get past the boulder to get out of the first overworld area.

It wasn't until quite a few years later that I figured out some of the Game Genie codes in the official Game Genie code book could have permanent affects on your save file. I had apparently gotten the hammer (which was what was required to break the boulder), but before breaking the boulder, I used a Game Genie code to swap the Hammer for some other item I wasn't supposed to get until later in the game. So, I was stuck without the ability to break the boulder.

More to what you were asking, The Adventure Of Lolo was a good example. I was pretty young when I first picked it up. Decided it was too hard, and basically never touched it again until adulthood. In adulthood, I loved it.

Super Mario World 3 and Castle of the winds.

When I was a kid: super pac man, tiny toons adventures

Wizardry 1, no save-scumming. I still have a go at it now and again.

Magic Carpet was incredibly fascinating. A whole planet that you could explore and influence and even modify terrain on? Every kid's dream, even given proof by Minecraft's popularity 20 years later. Could never get past the first several levels though.

Finished the game recently after giving it another go, no wonder only the beginning is kid-friendly. The later levels are devilish puzzles in difficulty. If you do not figure out the exact sequence of actions necessary to solve them, you die! Their open-world nature is only a masquerade to trick you into complacency.

Sonic advance 2, I got good enough to beat all the stages but I never got enough SP rings to get a single chaos emerald

Obsessed with Legacy of the Wizard as a kid on my NES. I didn't even realize the goal was to get crowns until I revisited as an adult. I can still hum 5 or 6 different scores from the games soundtrack 30 years later.

I used to play a boatload of Street Fighter 2010. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter_2010:_The_Final_Fight)

That game was and still is incredibly hard, but regardless I used to play it for hours at a time as a kid.

Nina Gaiden and adventures of Link on NES.

So damn difficult

Rayman. That thing got brutal ( to 10 year old me anyway).

ADOM

Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy.

Never completed them, even with maps, POKE cheats for infinite lives etc.

I think the problem was you couldn't really save many games then, so you were always defeated by either dinnertime or bedtime.

I think the same probably applies to nearly every game I ever played on the ZX Spectrum, but those two I think I tried the most.

I’ve never beaten a video game 😞

Wild 9. Never beat it, but there's something magical about killing your enemies by smashing them back and forth against the walls and floor

Super swift on the snes.

Sekiro and Demon's Souls.

The only two souls games I haven't beaten.

I haven't beaten them in the past, or the present as I continue to try and beat them. 😮‍💨

The first two gothic video games. The first one started to crash when I entered a specific area and the second one I don't even know why I didn treat that one

None. If I enjoyed a game enough to play it a ton, I will eventually beat it. And not just beat it, but get 100% and all the achievements when possible.

The only games I played a ton but didn't beat are open world games that don't have a set objectives.

Little Nemo, Castlevania 2 with anyone besides the pirate. Had to wait till highschool till I 'got good' enough forthe saturday morning cartoon games.