Ever have a game "put you in your place"?

[NE146]

Actraiser 2 made me realize I can't be good at every game when I couldn't even complete the first stage.

[Genesaturn]

Any Street Fighter game...as sad as it may sound. I've spent countless hours and even money back in the arcade days beating the hell out of opponents on Soul Blade thru the latest Soul Caliber game...I hold my own in Tekken and Mortal Kombat...but for some reason...I've always sucked...my entire life...at Street Fighter....

[Red Warrior]

Doom. I can beat Battletoads, the original TMNT, and Ninja Gaiden on NES, but I'll be danged if I can get any further than 2 or 3 levels in when I play Doom. And that's on the low difficulty settings...

[8bitgamer]

I'm terrible at the original arcade version of Spy Hunter, even though I'm pretty good at most classic games.

[wiggyx]

Rush'n Attack (Did I spell that correctly?) kicked my ASS when I was a kid. I haven't played it since I was like 10, so I have no idea whether or not it's actually difficult or not for an adult player.

I think a lot of old NES games pwned me. Kid Icarus took me forever to get past stage 1-3, original Metroid was a total PITA with it's lack of viewable map (thank god for Nintendo power maps or I woulda never beat that game), and Megaman 1's stupid rock boss until I learned the cheap-o pause/un-pause trick (still can't beat that a-hole without cheating).

[Bardoly]

Yep, my brothers and sisters and I loved to play Battletoads for the NES, but we never could get even halfway throught the game. Then I got a Game Genie, and thanks to stage select and unlimited lives we still couldn't beat the game. Gonna try again sometime this year. Pray for me that I don't lose my sanity. (Also, I've lost my Game Genie, so I don't know what I'm going to do.)

Also for the SNES, I recently picked up a copy of Super Ghouls and Ghosts and my brother and I had a 4-hour marathon, and we never could even get to the end of the first level! Maybe we'll try again sometime soon, but I don't know...

[Retronick]

Space Hulk on the Saturn made a gibbering wimp outta me. I can't even get past the first few enemies in that monster. Also, Batman Returns on the Genesis... Needlessly hard.

[The 1 2 P]

On the first Nes Ninja Gaiden I could get thru to the last boss but I couldn't even beat his first form. And speaking of Ninja Gaiden, the original Xbox version was very hard. It took me a while before I beat the first boss. I never beat the second boss, mainly because of all his dumb ass minions distracting me.