8 Pre-Internet Video Games That Desperately Needed A Patch

8. The Lion King (SNES) - I Just Can't Wait To Beat This Game

I know the next sentence might sound like hyperbole, but The Lion King for the SNES is the game that ruined my childhood.

I say this because thanks to this utter hellscape of a title I got to see my Dad utterly defeated and on the brink of such anger that he had to walk away from the console. It was one of those glass-shattering moments because up until that point, my parents were like superheroes, always there to offer help or assistance, and to see him unable to get past some of the early levels was utterly gutting for both he and I.

And you know what? It didn't have to be this way as this wasn't some sort of perceived difficulty, it was actually a horribly oily marketing ploy in order to get longer and repeat rentals of the game! Seriously Capcom was told by Disney to make the game purposefully difficult so that it couldn't be completed in a single weekend rental period and would therefore force people to rent the game numerous times in order to beat it!

Therefore my patch would not only be one that introduced a more lenient difficulty mode but would also act as a salve to my and many other gamers' earliest gaming experiences.