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Pretty much all of them... I have so many memories of old 80s computer games where all I remember is level 1. It appears that I was terrible and perfectly happy with that.

Most NES games; those fuckers were TOUGH

I beat it as an adult but as a kid could never beat the Lion King video game. Spent hours on that game

I don't know why but we had Myst and it never failed to annoy 8yr old me every time.

Commander Keen

Loved it but sucked

xcom 2

Ghouls 'n Ghosts. Absolutely loved that game. I played it constantly. Even when i got a new game, i would always go back to that cursed game. I don't even remember how far i got, but i did not got far at all.

Majoras mask

For me its factorio. I always start, get into problems, realize I fucked up the layout and am thinking 'better just start fresh'. So I have a couple hundred hours in the game, but I never completed it.

Sonic 2

I beat 1, 3 and & Knuckles, but never 2.

GTA 3 / Vice City. My brother had a PS2 and would let me play. I never bothered with the story / campaign, I just liked to wonder around, steal cars, and drive. I enjoyed using cheat codes to spawn tanks and get full wanted level and outrun the cops.

• Prince of Persia 3D
• Age of Empires II

Mario 64. I kinda hated that game, but kept on playing.

All those old LucasArts games (Day of the Tentacle, LOOM, Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis, Sam & Max, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, &c) and similar adventure games (Kyrandia, King's Quest, &c). My mother played all of them and beat them, and while I watched her play I never really managed to finish any of them without looking up guides.

I'm currently trying to finish the 7th Saga. Every time I think I've made it farther then ever, I recognize something.

I'm also realizing there really wasn't much content in these old RPGs, just a lot of forced grinding.

Jurassic Park SNES. Surprisingly for that era, I never considered actually reading the manual. I played and beat it a couple years ago, it's a gem.

Battletoads.

Not even doing a meme, that game was hard as fuck.

Was obsessed with Pokemon...

Got to Victory Road

Never found out how the hell to leave Victory Road

RIP in Peace

Did not beat a Pokemon game till Gen 4

2 - Copy of game was stolen from me...

3 - Skipped this generation due to being bullied for liking Pokemon

4 - Beat Diamond!

Lara Croft tomb raider on Play Station 1

I could never beat the Harry Potter games because there are parts where you need to trace certain symbols at a certain speed to learn a spell which are required to progress through the game, and trying to get both the hand dexterity and mouse dexterity to follow through is worse than button-mashing levels.

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

Jazz Jackrabbit

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.

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. My brother and I would play split screen, and we always hit a point where we had no idea where to go

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.

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

Diddy Kong's Quest for the SNES. I always got stuck in K.Rool's Keep, got frustrated, took a break, forgot the game existed for a couple of weeks/months, and then started over from scratch when I realized that I wasn't used to the controls anymore.

Tetris.

The Water Temple was a nightmare of a level. Easily the hardest point in the game. If you stick with it, the everything that comes after it seems relatively straightforward!

That being said, having finished the game multiple times many years ago, I played through Breath of the Wild then went back to Ocarina of Time, and it felt very dated. Lots of nostalgia, but the control system is that of a very primitive game by today's standard for open worlds.

As for your question though, The Lost Levels in the Super Mario Allstars game. I've never gone back to it after all these years, might be worth trying again now with fresh eyes :)

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.

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

Donkey kobg country

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.

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.