Did you ever give up on a game because it was too hard?

[TruckOSaurus]

ebw said:

Veknoid_Outcast said:
No recent games, but a handful of older NES games. Games were just so much more difficult 25 years ago.

I think the most recent was Castlevania III, which I downloaded on Virtual Console. I played the same level a dozen times, memorized every move and enemy, but I still couldn't make it past the level boss.

There are definitely some paths in Castlevania III that are harder than others (I've found Sypha is the easiest to win with).  My two banes from the NES era were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the first one, before the series became all beat-em-ups) and Blaster Master.  In both cases the last levels were just too much, I couldn't even get to the boss.  Thinking back, I must not have had any Game Genie codes to give me an edge back then.

Those two games were just the ones I wanted to mention.

In TMNT, the farthest I've gone is inside the Technodrome but those guys in space suits in narrow corridors would totally destroy me.

For Blaster Master, I think I made it to Level 7 recently while replaying on the Virtual Console. I still have hope, I'll get through it one day.