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For me, Riven. Game just owned me hard back in the day when it released to where I sadly never got back to it.

Its on my agenda once I get thru the new realMyst release, and then really sit with it and give it its due.

BrokenSword Syria , Kebab guy puzzle.

Laptop figure puzzles in GK3.

I remember being gloriously stuck at various points in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.  Didn’t hamper my enjoyment of the game one bit.  Granted, I was 6 years old at the time, but still.  I think I got the hintbook for my birthday the following year.  Still one of my favorite Lucasarts games though—love all the alternate solutions, especially at the end of the game.

I also remember being stumped on the Monkey Island 2 spitting contest puzzle for a long time before I “accidentally” did it correctly when the wind happened to be blowing when I clicked to spit.  I think it took me another playthrough before I realized why it had worked.

Also had trouble with Monkey Island 2, not only the spit puzzle but other places also.
Had a lot of trouble with Space Quest IV - kept dying everywhere.

Oh. So, so many. King’s Quest series, for one. I never finished any of them except VI with the help of a walkthrough. I don’t know why I found KQ so difficult because I got through SQ and QFG without too much trouble.

I didn’t get along with Neuromancer very well, although I enjoyed it a lot.

Savatage79 - 26 June 2014 01:54 PM

For me, Riven. Game just owned me hard back in the day when it released to where I sadly never got back to it.

Its on my agenda once I get thru the new realMyst release, and then really sit with it and give it its due.

Riven was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the subject heading. I spent weeks and weeks on it with little progress and growing frustrated and tired ended up going to a walkthrough to solve the bulk of the game.

Though several years later with more adventure game experience and having essentially forgotten the solutions, I gave it another go and found it a completely different and refreshing experience. It was still challenging, of course, but I found myself making steady progress and solved the game on my own (save for that one pesky clue to the animal sound puzzle). I hope your second attempt is equally enjoyable.

I’ll second Kings Quest. Finished pretty much every other sierra Quest game without too much hassle, but the Kings Quest games were difficult.

UFOs. That game made absolutely no sense and I was still hard-headed enough to confuse that with challenge.

Gabe - 27 June 2014 01:56 AM

Back in the days Bad Day On The Midway served me some nausea.

I’m not surprised. Midway is one of the most terrifying games ever made.