RE: I sucked at video games.
July 18, 2021 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2021 at 3:30 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(July 18, 2021 at 1:48 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I had a hard time with Space Invaders and Defender as a kid.
The old arcade games were made to be hard so that people wouldn't play them for too long and leave more coins.
But from my experience, at first, I was bad at almost every video game I would play which is normal because you get better at it as you play, especially in the past when there wasn't the internet and you were pretty much stuck with the stash of games you had.
Although at some games I wasn't aiming to get better at, like FPS games, which I just played with cheats so that I could kill as many people/ monsters as I could. It was such a discovery to come from school, turn on Duke Nukem or Doom, and spill some guts.
(July 18, 2021 at 2:11 pm)Ten Wrote: 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.
I also played this game but what I found frustrating was Scar at the end. I would beat whole game several times, and yet could never figure out how to kill him. It was really unfair of them to mess it up like that especially since there was no save game.
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