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Games you had no idea what to do in as a kid
- Thread starter Phediuk
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I loved this game as a kid, for masochistic reasons probably, as it was quite hard, and at some point i just got stuck. Never managed to finish it until i read a walkthrough on gamefaqs.
Not sure if this strictly counts, but I remember there was a game that came with Microsoft Encarta '95 I think called Mind Maze. It had you go around rooms in a castle or something periodically answering History trivia I believe. At the time I really didn't play games (didn't own a console and didn't have much in the way of PC games) and that wound up being my entertainment when I was bored. It's probably one of the things that ultimately became the gateway for my interest in gaming as a hobby.
Anyways, I don't think I ever figured out how to beat it. At some point I'd just get stuck and not know what to do next, stopped playing for a while, and then come back to it some time later. And thus the cycle repeated. I remember at the time thinking it was just one of those "big kid" games I wasn't meant to understand, and I just felt happy with whatever progress I could make.
Edit: Picture from the game. Man this takes me back
Anyways, I don't think I ever figured out how to beat it. At some point I'd just get stuck and not know what to do next, stopped playing for a while, and then come back to it some time later. And thus the cycle repeated. I remember at the time thinking it was just one of those "big kid" games I wasn't meant to understand, and I just felt happy with whatever progress I could make.
Edit: Picture from the game. Man this takes me back
The Graveyard puzzle in Alundra and if I can be honest... I still absolutely don't get how you're supposed to solve it. My sister, who was older at the time, tried to help me with it and she also couldn't figure it out (and she was generally good at this sorta thing). I really hate ever having to go there because I absolutely don't ever remember how to do it and always have to look it up.
Was there something lost in translation (especially given it was a Working Designs localization, which did sometimes have issues)...? I literally couldn't make heads or tales of the clues the game tries to give you.
Was there something lost in translation (especially given it was a Working Designs localization, which did sometimes have issues)...? I literally couldn't make heads or tales of the clues the game tries to give you.
This so much. Solar Jetman, Friday the 13th. Many other NES games.
Most fighting games such as fatal fury and street fighter. I didn't know how to do specials and only used normals which was fine most of the time but seeing others or CPU do cool stuff meant I button mashed to try and rub the dpad just right to throw a fireball.
The only specials I worked out were purely by accident and were charge specials.
The only specials I worked out were purely by accident and were charge specials.
Simcity 3000
I have no idea and no clue about the finance, ordinances, advisers, taxes, deals, etc. Too many times I got fired as a Mayor and I used money cheat to keep playing. Only years later I realized that I didn't managed the city well with stable income, more expenses and citizens were mostly unhappy with land value, despite the city grown pretty good with less abandoned buildings.
I have no idea and no clue about the finance, ordinances, advisers, taxes, deals, etc. Too many times I got fired as a Mayor and I used money cheat to keep playing. Only years later I realized that I didn't managed the city well with stable income, more expenses and citizens were mostly unhappy with land value, despite the city grown pretty good with less abandoned buildings.
King's Quest on the Amiga. I would always get Sir Graham killed within mins bc I never knew what to type to save him.
Put me down as another one for Mario is Missing. Most depressing weekend rental ever. Feeling sad that my mom took the time to go rent something for me she thought I would like and I couldn't do anything with it and just wasted her money.
Put me down as another one for Mario is Missing. Most depressing weekend rental ever. Feeling sad that my mom took the time to go rent something for me she thought I would like and I couldn't do anything with it and just wasted her money.
Ocarina of Time. First ever Zelda game. Ran around for a while, came up to a guard at a gate who wouldn't let me go by. Didn't know what to do, ran around some more, turned it off and gave the game back to a friend. Haven't played a Zelda game since then lol.
Gave up on the starting area of OoT on a first rental. Ended up being my favourite videogame later.
wow... I think I found my evil doppelganger
wow... I think I found my evil doppelganger
Heroes of the Lance for Master System. I really had no idea what I was doing or where to go in that game.
Quest for Glory 4
Everytime I got to the village I died shortly after for reasons I didn't understand. And I had no clue where to go and what to do.
Everytime I got to the village I died shortly after for reasons I didn't understand. And I had no clue where to go and what to do.
Heroes of the Lance for Master System. I really had no idea what I was doing or where to go in that game.
That was my first RPG. I think I drew maps of what entrances led where. Took me some time to figure out how to kill the final boss, as that wasn't exactly explained at all in the game :p
That was...the starting area? I ran back to the village and hit some chickens cause I got bored of looking for an answer. Like...idk I couldn't kill the guard and I don't remember the townsfolk saying anything if you could even talk to them. I tried a link to the past on an emulator years later but same thing I just kinda ran around not knowing what to do lol
I could never get past the 2nd level in top gun not matter how hard i tried. Could never get the damn fuel in the tank.
Karate Kid that 3rd level just kicked my ass and I never made it past that level either.
I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing in Jaws either. Just killing squids and stuff until the mini jaws showed up. But then I'd get killed by jaws.
Karate Kid that 3rd level just kicked my ass and I never made it past that level either.
I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing in Jaws either. Just killing squids and stuff until the mini jaws showed up. But then I'd get killed by jaws.
Both of these games were absolute nightmares for me. I remember seeing the boxes for them and being super excited, then finding out what they were...ugh
I'll never be able to get over how that red lipstick makes Fester look like a bald, pale drag queen in a fur coat.
Are you sure this is the real game and not a parody video because I can't even... I've played some rough VCS games and I owned that one, but now I realise why I don't remember playing it.
Rad Gravity NES - Seriously half the time with that game is "Where the fuck am I? I did not know I could do that! Wait, this makes no fucking sense"
ShadowRun SNES - I did not understand the nature of how the game worked/played at the time. Thankfully years later in my late teens I gave it another shot and loved it.
ShadowRun SNES - I did not understand the nature of how the game worked/played at the time. Thankfully years later in my late teens I gave it another shot and loved it.
Yeah, I didn't really give a chance either. I bought it used from some small game shop and returned it the next week to get something else. I just couldn't wrap my head around it, and I was but a child, so.
It is a fairly obtuse and hard game, but I guess that's how RPGs were back then. I think I was in my early teenage years when I played it, probably somewhere between 11 and 13.
seeing youtube videos of midwinter lets me think if i had another game. sometimes i was able to ski to a building. that was it
*edit: added screenshots
*edit: added screenshots
I was a dumb kid I guess and couldn't get further than like 10 minutes in. xD
Hah! Not just me!
This is the first game that came to my mind when I read the title
My earliest memory of such a game would be Ant Attack on the Spectrum, though I would have only been about 5 or 6 which may have had something to do with it! But I rememer just running around getting attacked by ants and not having a clue what to do.
