10 Video Games Nobody Has Beaten (Because It's Genuinely Impossible)
2. RoboCop - Commodore 64
The 1989 RoboCop multi-format release was immensely popular. In fact, somehow, it became the best-selling video game in the United Kingdom of the entire decade. Take that Mario, Zelda and Pac-Man!
As such, gamers who grew up through the 1980s might have a dreamy, far-away look in their eye when thinking of it. That is, of course, unless they had the Commodore 64 version.
Level 3 of the game is literally impossible to beat thanks to the time-limit. Our steel-clad police officer simply doesn't move quickly enough to reach the goal. This was imposed by the developers at Ocean for a very specific reason: to hide the truth. See, it is possible to get through Level 3 by repeatedly crouching next to a specific wall and pushing yourself through.
On the other side, Level 4 begins - which is a mess of tiles and sprites, completely unfinished and unplayable. Ah, so that's why the time limit is so strict.
This is the worst example of a studio putting a band-aid over a broken bone. Or perhaps more fittingly, a stop sign just an inch from a brick-wall. "RoboCop is broken, so let's just make it harder than it is so people give up". Awful!