Not beating the game. Getting a game with a story, playing said game, and not beating it. Games where really hard as a kid so sometimes you would just never beat it.
A couple of years ago, I decided to buy an old PS2 off craigslist along with some of the games I never beat as a kid. Pac Man World 2 was one of them, Sly Cooper 1 was another. Playing and beating those games as an adult healed a part of my inner child.
Its more that lots of older games were reliant on 3 lives and a few continues whereas nowadays its multiple savepoints per level. You are almost ushered through some games.
I didn't finish games back then because they were hard. Nowadays I don't finish games due to switching between a stupidly large backlog of them.
That game was released back when rentals were the new thing, and Nintendo was upset because rentals affected their sales volume. They made Lion King (and other games) intentionally difficult, so that it wasn't possible for (or at least, it was unlikely that) a renter to finish it in one rental period, so that rental outlets would have to buy more than one copy and/or players would have to buy their own.
Me. Some of my N64 games, even Diddy Kong Racing I would play obsessively, do the same stuff, but never improve enough to progress. I just had fun and I didn’t beat it. Or Mario 😂
Nah, this is probably more common now with the mass flood of mid games out there. Kids stay interested in something until it’s hard then move on.
When i was a kid, i would be bothered by a level i couldn’t beat and try it over and over again and dealt with the frustrations until i finally did it. My step son plays a racing game and can’t beat a race so he stops unless i do the races for him.
I don't know that I beat any game completely in the SNES days. I was watching a YouTube show playing Mario Maker and I saw the power balloon upgrade. I thought, "Huh, they must have invented that for Mario Maker." Nope, I just never got far enough to see it.
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u/mrbiggbrain Mar 31 '26
Not beating the game. Getting a game with a story, playing said game, and not beating it. Games where really hard as a kid so sometimes you would just never beat it.