8 Video Game Levels That Destroyed Your Childhood

8. The Lion King - Can't Wait To Be King

While other areas of Lion King franchise made our childhoods, this !*$% game absolutely broke them. In a move that would go on to make children (and adults) around the world cry, Disney approached Virgin Interactive with just one goal.

"Make this game hard enough that kids can't complete it in a single rental period thereby meaning we'll make more money when they have to either buy the game outright or rent it again"

So Virgin Interactive, clearly being children haters, took this message to heart and made The Lion King one of the hardest video games ever to be marketed to kids. The opening level was bad enough as younger players found that Simba was next to useless and had the constitution of an iron lung patient landings to dispatch, but it was the second level "Can't Wait To Be King" that took the cake (and the absolute piss)

Here you needed to use pixel-perfect aim to grab hippo tails, and have almost precognitive powers to understand WHAT THE EVER LOVING f**k THESE MONKEYS WANTED YOU TO DO.

As a kid I remember passing the controller to my dad to get him to help me, only to watch him die over and over on screen and a little more inside each and every time. This game broke my dad.

'Nuff said.