Frustrating Video Game Moments: Have You Gotten Stuck on a Video Game?

[Cloudman]

pokoko said:

Cloudman said:

Yeah, I feel I've heard a lot about the good and bad sides with the atari, I think a lot of it from AVGN. He may mostly talk about bad games and how awful some of the Atari games were, I think I got picture of how the Atari 2600 was during its run.

Also, I think I get the idea of Bugs. You... shoot the spray can thing and it explodes, killing all the bugs and lizard, right? That's what I think I got. It looks pretty confusing though. I'm not even sure what was happening, haha.

I have no idea.  Nothing I ever did worked.  You move your cursor side to side but can't do anything until that thing appears and then you can only shoot that.  Of course, that takes so long that the bugs reach the top, at which point it you've lost.  Honestly, I could probably work it out now but, as a kid, I was totally lost.  When children are your audience, that's bad.

I do want to stress that there were lots of good games, too.  It's just that you often didn't know what you were getting, unlike now.

Like this game, which I loved, which also came from the bargin bin.

That game does look pretty fun. What's interesting about Atari games is figuring out what things are. I'm guessing the missingno. guys are bad guys and you're supposed to shoot them. The spinning blades I figure need to be shot as well, and I can tell the gun is ammo or something. The main goal seems to be to stay alive and shoot the other characters. That's quite fun in itself, figuring out what is what.

That bug game though... yeah, looks frustrating to figure out.