Old gamers have been sharing the obstacles that today’s players could instantly solve with a Google – 17 rage-quit-inducing problems
10.
‘Holding down the B-button to make Mario run, and then hitting the A-button with the side of my thumb made him jump very long distances. I’ll never forget how my brother and mom reacted in amazement when I soared to the top of the flagpole in world 1-1 for the first time.
‘I am 44. This happened shortly after Christmas in 1987.’
-mrkorb
11.
‘I had to put down Final Fantasy X for months because one of the temple puzzles got the best of me and I just couldn’t see how to solve it.
‘Ended up picking it up from scratch a few years later and thankfully found the place I was supposed to put an orb and breezed through it.
‘What a game though.’
-so_much_wolf_hair
12.
‘X-Men for Sega Genesis
‘Not the easiest game to begin with, but you get to the second to last level and get stuck in a room and the prompt is to “reset the cpu”. What you are supposed to do is tap the reset button on the console to get to the final level, but understand that for every gamer at that point of time, that reset button reboots every other single game and you lose all your progress. No one touches the reset button mid-game, ever, you only touch it if your game freezes and you need to do a soft reboot.
‘So you spend hours getting to this stage, and then have no idea what to do, you assume there is a switch in the game you have to hit to “reset the CPU” so you don’t even consider pushing the button IRL. I think the first time I was stuck on the screen trying everything for 20 minutes until I had to go and then turned off the game and quit.
‘It was a complete “think outside the box” mechanic, and actually figuring it out made you feel like a genius. But you also likely never met anyone else in real life who experienced the same thing because all your other friends had Super Nintendos instead.’
-HappycatAF
13.
‘There was a page in the original StarTropics manual that you had to get wet in order to read a secret code (747) to progress in the game.
‘This was very difficult if you lost the manual or bought it secondhand.’
-MaximumZer0
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‘The spinning barrel in Carnival Night Zone of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. You had to get underneath it to continue the level- there was visibly a powerful powerup in the chamber below so that was obviously the way to go. When you stood on the barrel, it would give way enough that it looked like you could just get through. But no matter how much you tried jumping through the gap, it would never work.
‘Worse, there was a ten minute timer on any Sonic level, and finite lives, so you couldn’t just try ad infinitum.
I tried to find an alternative route through the level, but that was another fool’s errand- there was no other way through.
‘Eventually we got a strategy guide, which wasn’t very well worded (it said the technique in the wrong section of the book) but it turned out you were supposed to control the barrel, not Sonic. You were supposed to stand him on the barrel, then alternate pressing the “up” and “down” buttons, and you could make the barrel move much further than if you were just jumping.
‘How we were supposed to get that I’ll never know. Nowhere else in the game do you control the environment rather than Sonic, there is nothing visually to tell you that you are on the right track (Sonic stays stock still), and you have to alternate up and down several times before the effect becomes clear. Even professional gamers on YouTube struggle at that point when they get to it.’
-atticdoor
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‘I got stuck at various points in Day of the Tentacle for months at a time. The longest was nearly a year. Finally, after brute forcing every item with every single thing in the game, I learned you have to read the physics book to the horse. The horse gets bored, falls asleep and puts it teeth in a glass, so you take the horse teeth, put them on the mummy, win the human contest, and give the gift certificate to the prison guard so the human prisoners can escape. Of course, you then discover the prisoners don’t want to leave, so you still have to figure out how to make the cat look like a skunk so you can scare them into running away – but that’s a whole other story.’
-nashamanga
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‘Police Quest 3 – You have to click at the side of the car door to speak to the driver or you’d be run over by incoming car. I had to write letters to Sierra on how to solve this ‘problem’. Also, thanks Sierra for replying each time :)’
-shizuofficial
17.
‘I never discovered that the firefly in Spyro would point you towards the nearest gems. I spent days and days in Spyro 3 trying to find the last gems, but never did :(‘
-Logitech4873
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