I feel like most children had no concept of "beating" games if that makes sense? The amount of times back in the day I would restart games for no reason instead of continuing either cuz I forgot what I was doing, I was too scared to keep going, or I just really liked the beginning, was numerous. Some of my favorite games now were ones I played the same hour of over and over again when they released and didn't actually beat until well into my teens such as Dino Crisis 1 and 2 and Tomba.

@stovetop Yeah I can kinda see that for some kids. But, I never really had that problem. I knew what beating a game was. I wanted to get the most out of every game I played so I tried to get to the credits in most games. I'd say about 1/3 of this list is probably games I never really tried to beat. I'd just play them for fun and go until I died. But the rest of them I tried and tried to beat but never could. The biggest one is Mickey Mania. I have vivid memories sitting down and trying to beat it. That's also one of the games my mom really enjoyed and we'd pass the controller whenever one of us died. We could get to the final level most of the time but never did beat it.

I was never too scared to keep playing any game and I can't really think of one that I'd just play the beginning over and over without trying to get through the whole game. Now for forgetting what I was doing? That's something I do now lol. I'll play so much of a game when get distracted by something else and when I come back to the game I have no idea what's going on and I have to start over.

I did this a few years ago myself and just started to aiming to beat these types of games that I never managed to do so before too. Gargoyles still holds a place as one of those so I may need to buckle up and do that too myself one of these days! Ganbatte homie!

@Doaks Yeah I want go get through the original Gargoyles before the remastered version comes out later this year / early next year.