And sports. I had a hard time with Space Invaders and Defender as a kid. But one of the most frustrating games came in my my adulthood. Anyone remember  the PC game "You Don't Know Jack"? It was a trivia game like Jeopardy, but on meth. 

What were some of the video games that made you want to pull your hair out?

I suck at video games, too, but I still enjoy them. My biggest frustration is being unable to complete hard levels without using cheats. That, and older games that don't support modern controllers.

(July 18, 2021 at 1:58 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I suck at video games, too, but I still enjoy them.  My biggest frustration is being unable to complete hard levels without using cheats.  That, and older games that don't support modern controllers.

I loved "Mortal Kombat" the home version, but I could only get to the end in the practice level. My favorite Character in the original game was Sonja. 

I also loved the original "Resident Evil" but I sucked at that too. Funny thing was, my x wife refused to play that game at night in the dark.

I grew up on one joystick and a fire button. I don't get how players today handle 5 billion buttons on one controller.

SNES, Nintendo 64, and the Wii were always my gaming systems growing up. Tons of great games on those but then there's always those games that were functionally bad or the levels were too hard.

My least favorites:

ActRaiser 2 (SNES)

You'd have 3 tries to get through the sidescrolling levels that were swarming with enemies, with a boss battle at the end. I don't think I beat a single one on the map. I remember spending hours trying over and over, getting the levels memorized, only to go back in and have the guy land wrong from a jump, or die during a boss battle. 

Dr Franken (SNES) and Aero the Acro-Bat (SNES) were similar to Act Raiser in that stupidly hard levels and random surprise deaths thing.

I actually enjoyed the Lion King (SNES) but it was frustrating as hell. There weren't save files. So, every time, you'd start from the beginning level. And the second level was a tree with all these different colored monkeys that you had to roar at to get them turned the right way, so that when you jumped into the hands of the first one and got tossed from monkey to monkey, it'd take you to the parts of the tree where you needed to go. It was very easy to fall off the tree entirely and it was easy to get confused by the monkeys. You'd get tossed through this line of 3-4 of them only to realize you mistakenly turned the wrong one and ended up in the wrong place in the tree. Oh, but then, once you're done dealing with monkeys, they drop you on the back of an ostrich that starts running in a sidescroll where obstacles above and below would come in off screen. If you didn't duck or jump or have Simba jump at the right time, the ostrich would crash and you'd have to start over. There was this one part, I swear I pushed jump at but the ostrich would fall anyway. Definitely a hair pull kinda game.

As far as sucking at video games. I could be considered worst than God. How many resets did that character do before he finally smashed the game console and went home?

Frogger was another video game that frustrated the crap out of me.

(July 18, 2021 at 2:03 pm)Brian37 Wrote:

(July 18, 2021 at 1:58 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I suck at video games, too, but I still enjoy them.  My biggest frustration is being unable to complete hard levels without using cheats.  That, and older games that don't support modern controllers.

I loved "Mortal Kombat" the home version, but I could only get to the end in the practice level. My favorite Character in the original game was Sonja. 

I also loved the original "Resident Evil" but I sucked at that too. Funny thing was, my x wife refused to play that game at night in the dark.

I grew up on one joystick and a fire button. I don't get how players today handle 5 billion buttons on one controller.

The buttons can be overwhelming, but with my handicap, I can manage games with a controller where all the controls are centralized that I can't manage using mouse and keyboard.

A particularly frustrating thing is games that assign zooming in and out to the scroll wheel without options for reassigning. I use a trackball without a scroll wheel because of my handicap.

(July 18, 2021 at 2:26 pm)Angrboda Wrote:

(July 18, 2021 at 2:03 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I loved "Mortal Kombat" the home version, but I could only get to the end in the practice level. My favorite Character in the original game was Sonja. 

I also loved the original "Resident Evil" but I sucked at that too. Funny thing was, my x wife refused to play that game at night in the dark.

I grew up on one joystick and a fire button. I don't get how players today handle 5 billion buttons on one controller.

The buttons can be overwhelming, but with my handicap, I can manage games with a controller where all the controls are centralized that I can't manage using mouse and keyboard.

A particularly frustrating thing is games that assign zooming in and out to the scroll wheel without options for reassigning.  I use a trackball without a scroll wheel because of my handicap.

If you remember the famous story of the octopus escaping it's enclosure and snaking down the drain. THAT is whom you want playing video games. If you had to depend on me escaping the Nazis, I we'd all be fucked.

There's a Yiddish word for someone who sucks at so many things......


Schlub.

(July 18, 2021 at 3:06 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: There's a Yiddish word for someone who sucks at so many things......


Schlub.

‘Shmegegge’ is closer. ‘Schlub’ has an almost affectionate quality, a sense of someone who tries hard but tends to fail through bad luck as much as anything. ‘Shmegegge’ carries the sense of someone whose ineptitude and persistent foolishness merits contempt and derision.

You can feel sorry for a schlub, never for a shmegegge.

Boru