Top 10 HARDEST First Levels in Video Games
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Man, these games really don’t ease you into it…They are the most difficult, challenging, and downright friggin HARD AS BALLS levels that you have to play first in games. Welcome to and today we’re counting down our picks for the Top 10 HARDEST First Levels in Video Games!
#10. Skynet “The Terminator” (1992)
#9. Arkham Asylum “Batman Forever” (1995)
#8. The Drawbridge “Dragon’s Lair” (1990)
#7. Tatooine Speeder “Super Star Wars Return of the Jedi” (1995)
#6. Temple of Trials “Fallout 2” (1998)
#5. The Streets of Springfield “The Simpsons Bart vs. the Space Mutants” (1991)
#4. Pewter City Gym “Pokémon Yellow” (1999)
#3, #2 & #1: ????
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Some Hard first levels I remember were from Tom & Jerry & Tail spin on the NES.
CupHead!
Men l forgot to smoke, fucking yt that distracts me…
Fallout 2 just equip the spear lol
What about the first driver game for the og PlayStation.
Pokemon Yellow just grind for a Pidgeotto
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands BETA had the hardest first level…
I ALWAYS FAILED THAT F***ING CONNECTION TO UBISOFT SERVERS, IT WAS A MIRACLE THAT I SOMEHOW DID IT.
The first level of "Driver" was hard for me until the day that I found information on how to perform the maneuvers inside the booklet that came with the game. Now, I can beat the first mission with ease.
Ahhh driver. If you made it past that garage the levels that insued were insane. Especially the last level
Back to the Future 3 with Doc on the horse is harder than most of those.
i drop by once a month to yalls channnel to say you suck soo aaaa yea there u go not much els to say .
Most of the games that are hard are old cause of the bad controlling mechanics
Cuphead?
The First level of Driver thaught you the skills you need, wasnt that hard though.
Brock was hard? Have you bothered training your Pokemon at all in Viridian forest?
Butterfree learned Confusion rather early. Rock types have low special defense. Easy win
Bart and the Beanstalk. By far the most frustrating game I've ever played. Never did beat it.
The Adventures of Bayou Billy… that is all.
That fucking Simpsons game did my head in. I never got past the first level.
Many of these are just due to poor design that carries over into the rest of the game. I thought I'd see a Contra level here since those games never let up even at the start, or perhaps Ninja Gaiden 2's very first fight.
What person goes though the pokemon game with just their starter? I always make sure to pick up any pokemon I think can help me.
Why is Cuphead not on this list? The game is so hard even the first level
Why is Pokemon yellow on this list? I didn't struggle with it and don't know anyone who did. Beating Brock was easy
Mine level is the Hardest first level in Sonic 2 Game gear Ever!!
This video from Eurogamer's interview with Shigeru Miyamoto about the creation of World 1-1:
In an era with no in-game tutorials, World 1-1 had to be designed to teach the player the mechanics of the game, such as arranging progressively taller warp pipes for Mario to jump over to teach the player to hold the jump button longer.
The "Evil Dead" game for Playstation. Until you fight the first boss, the Hillbilly spider grandma, the game is super hard.
Ninja gaiden ???
The Driver tutorial
Creatures PS1, wtf were you supposed to do?
Meh, stage I of Simpsons wasn't so bad. It was Stage 2 where you had to jump over wet cement that got me. Invisible ledge WTF?
Dam almost this list have 1990s videos games. The 1990s videos games are hard.
that Batman Game looked like reskinned Mortal Kombat
Bart Simpson
Wheres cuphead
I was thinking Tomb Raider 2
ninja gaiden.or if you want the hardest 1st level ever created, try death story: a cave story mod.
how bout world 1-1 in Super Mario Brothers?
okay for #4 they easy way to beat brock is to catch either a Caterpie and raise it to Butterfree so it learns Confusion. or you can catch a Mankey and raise it to learn low kick and karate chop
The streets of Yharnam…..
Well it ain't nun now, a breeze. When I was a souls virgin it was, ohhh boy, "hell"
Dammit Watch Mojo Electric types aren't weak to Rock Types.
what about the villagers and the chainsaw in resident evil 4
Playing that simpsons game in the early 90s, I remember thinking that the whole game must be in that one level because there was no way to finish it lol
Batman wouldn’t have been so bad without a timer, I had it as a kid, it was infuriating. Old consoles game controls were sticky and unresponsive, so to use two buttons at a time was just dumb.
How about Contra? If I were to guess, I’d say the whole game was hard but I never got passed the first level.
That spanish guy copied ya