Games that you had no idea what to do in as a kid

.ak · 24-04-2014 08:42AM

truedoom wrote: »

this.

No clue, and still no clue.

That's the first one that sprang to mind. I remembering renting it for my PS and raking up a huge bill because I refused to bring it back until I figured it out. A weird bitter-sweet feeling when you finished it.

Another one was this...

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Although in fairness I think my patience was at an edge after the 24 floppy disk loadup. :mad:

Mr. CooL ICE · 24-04-2014 08:43AM

Ecco The Dolphin. Remember just swimming around and not really seeing the point of any of it.

After reading the wiki page, the designer intentionally made the game hard so children couldn't finish a rented copy in a weekend. Well played, sir.

Ol' Donie · 24-04-2014 08:57AM

Remember the dinosaur demo on the disc that came with the PS1?

I seem to remember playing that for ages...

Surely something will happen any minute now...

elfy4eva · 24-04-2014 08:57AM

SeantheMan wrote: »

Didn't it come out as a demo with some other game ?

Yea the Demo 1 that came with my playstation had Abes odysee, hercules, overboard, kurushi,porche challenge, as well as a Dino and manta graphic showcase that used to frighten the bejesus out of little me.

.ak · 24-04-2014 09:09AM

Afraid of manta rays?

The Pheasant2 · 24-04-2014 09:18AM

Kurushi for the PS1...to this day I still don't know what a kurushi is or what the hell they wanted from me.

elfy4eva · 24-04-2014 09:21AM

.ak wrote: »

Afraid of manta rays?

more referring to the Dino showcase but the manta one was a bit eerie in its own way.

elfy4eva · 24-04-2014 09:23AM

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

Kurushi for the PS1...to this day I still don't know what a kurushi is or what the hell they wanted from me.

Same situation here followed by the game telling me I had an I.Q. of 0

Pizzle · 24-04-2014 09:31AM

norrie rugger wrote: »

the original tomb raider. There was a ledge that you had to jump. It was a huge distance so I used to run jump but she missed every ****ing time, no matter the angle I tried.
Turned out you had to walk to the very ****ing edge and jump from standing.
The bitch could make it from standing still but not at a run

I was stuck on that part for ages. A friend did it for me in the end...felt so stupid when I saw that's what you had to do...

demixed · 24-04-2014 09:34AM

LordChessington wrote: »

Ecco The Dolphin. Remember just swimming around and not really seeing the point of any of it.

That f*cking Dolphin, I remember being very confused by the hype around this game at the time, and having zero clue what I was supposed to do.

Dave_The_Sheep · 24-04-2014 09:58AM

Jurassic Park demo. I hadn't a bulls notion what to do. Didn't bother getting the game as a result.

I also could never figure out how to get past the first level of Another World - that game just never clicked.

Thud · 24-04-2014 10:01AM

Eye of the Beholder, so many f*cking grey walls all looked the same...eventually tried to draw out a map on paper got a bit further but then gave up

.ak wrote: »

Another one was this...

Although in fairness I think my patience was at an edge after the 24 floppy disk loadup. :mad:

Was that Star Trek 25th Anniversary? Was flying along on that then got stuck, tried wandering around the same planet for about a forthnight then gave up, still bugs me

pablomakaveli · 24-04-2014 11:05AM

J. Marston wrote: »

Overboard?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb8MiAYOBHU

Loved that game but I hadn't a clue what I was doing either.

Looking at it now, I wonder if Ubisoft used it as inspiration for Assassin's Creed naval battles.

I had this game as well but it seemed straight forward to me. I do remember there were loads of different weapon types and some enemies could only be killed by a certain weapon so maybe that was confusing? It was a great game though. Got it with my PS1.

.ak · 24-04-2014 11:22AM

Thud wrote: »

Eye of the Beholder, so many f*cking grey walls all looked the same...eventually tried to draw out a map on paper got a bit further but then gave up

Was that Star Trek 25th Anniversary? Was flying along on that then got stuck, tried wandering around the same planet for about a forthnight then gave up, still bugs me

Yep. Mind boggling. Didn't really work on my PC properly either, trying to boot into MS-DOS to load it...

Sulla Felix · 24-04-2014 11:36AM

Another World. Bought it as a child. Was nearly a man before I got past the very first screen....
I was a very dense child apparently. I remember putting it on every couple of months hoping irrationally that the dog wouldn't be there this time.

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Great game though once I got past that!

Stone Deaf 4evr · 24-04-2014 11:39AM

Skerries wrote: »

I enjoyed them, after I cheated and entered a poke for infinite lives

wow, that just gave me a crazy flashback to my youth. :pac:

I remember zzapp 64, the commodore magazine used to have a section called "a pig in a poke"

gizmo · 24-04-2014 11:43AM

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You want me to what?

pablomakaveli · 24-04-2014 11:43AM

Dragons Lair was one for me. Never really got to grips with what i needed to do.

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This was where you started in the game on it seemed impossible to get across without dying for me. I did eventually get through the gate after a long time and umpteen attempts by some fluke.

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This is what you faced when you got through the get and i never got past here. Could never figure this out at all.

1huge1 · 24-04-2014 11:53AM

Two games for me growing up

As mentioned above, Ecco the Dolphin.

We had it on the mega drive and I remember just speeding into jelly fish and jumping over cliffs, never had a clue what to do. Plus, there was this giant octopus that used to scare me so I would turn it off...

Then there was Battle of Olympus on the NES, I remember just jumping around the Forrest with the wooden stick hitting everything that came at me. Good times.

phily2002 · 24-04-2014 11:53AM

I picked up a copy of Kessen on the ps2. Granted I didn't give it enough time but didn't have a clue what was going on. It sat on a shelf for a long time and when i did give it a second chance I was still baffled

sw33t_r3v3ng3 · 24-04-2014 11:55AM

Indiana jones lego on ps2 Could never play that game

happyoutscan · 24-04-2014 12:04PM

A2LUE42 wrote: »

First game I thought of, Raiders of the Lost Ark on the Atari 2600. Recently watched a walkthrough on Youtube which left me thinking wtf? If any child back in the day ever finished this they are definitely a member of Mensa.

muppetkiller · 24-04-2014 12:51PM

Spellbound on the Amstrad cpc464... no idea what to do in it cracking game though lol.

Dublin_Gunner · 24-04-2014 01:40PM

Sulla Felix wrote: »

Another World. Bought it as a child. Was nearly a man before I got past the very first screen....
I was a very dense child apparently. I remember putting it on every couple of months hoping irrationally that the dog wouldn't be there this time.

Great game though once I got past that!

OMFG! I've just searched the entire internetz looking for this! I saw this thread and this instantly came to mind (though I couldnt remember the name!) had this on the C64 and could never get past the firsat screen. You'd walk along, jump a few rocks and stuff and get the the end where there was a gate or something, but no way of getting past! I was 9 when I had this, and it obviously affected me deeply.

CastorTroy · 24-04-2014 03:34PM

Skerries wrote: »

I enjoyed them, after I cheated and entered a poke for infinite lives

Ah, pokes. I remember getting them on covertapes (remember them?)

gizmo wrote: »

You want me to what?

Oh wasn't that the part where you had to time it so you land just as his mouth shuts then you have to jump off again right away?
One of Dizzy's main problems was he had a habit of roling when he landed, usually straight off a ledge or into something that would kill him, which seemed to be everything.

24-04-2014 03:39PM

Does this count?

gizmo · 24-04-2014 03:41PM

CastorTroy wrote: »

Oh wasn't that the part where you had to time it so you land just as his mouth shuts then you have to jump off again right away?
One of Dizzy's main problems was he had a habit of roling when he landed, usually straight off a ledge or into something that would kill him, which seemed to be everything.

You had to jump on his mouth when closed and then, via the Use Item dialogue box, tie his mouth shut with rope.

Obviously.

Dave_The_Sheep · 24-04-2014 04:12PM

The Incredible Machine. Had it for ages on an old PC. For the first year or so I remember not having a clue what things did, just lashing **** together in freeplay and if it did something, happy days.

Eventually I actually bothered to figure out what you're supposed to do and tried clearing the challenge levels.

Skerries · 24-04-2014 04:26PM

Sulla Felix wrote: »

Another World. Bought it as a child. Was nearly a man before I got past the very first screen....
I was a very dense child apparently. I remember putting it on every couple of months hoping irrationally that the dog wouldn't be there this time.

Great game though once I got past that!

I didn't realise you could kick the worm things to kill them so I learned their routine and then jumpied over them at the right time, took me ages especially with the lion thing chasing me

Retr0gamer · 24-04-2014 04:43PM

I finished the recent rerelease of Another World about 2 years ago. The annoying thing about the game is you could be playing for ages then die and the checkpoint could be miles away if you are goingthe wrong way. The game only checkpoints if you are playing it right.

I got horribly stuck on a part where the obvious route was too the right while the solution was to fall off the bottom of the screen through a hole, the same holes you'd been trying to avoid up to that point.

Games that you had no idea what to do in as a kid

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