Top 10 Video Game Bosses None of Us Could Beat As Kids

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These boss fights caused a lot of kids to give up. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the top 10 nostalgic bosses that our undeveloped brains struggled to find a way to beat.

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00:00 - I can see into your mind.

00:05 So, you like sweet cotton.

00:09 - Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down

00:13 our picks for the top 10 nostalgic bosses

00:15 that our underdeveloped brains struggle to find a way to beat.

00:18 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:29 Number 10, Kulix, Super Mario RPG, Legend of the Seven Stars.

00:33 He can see your past.

00:43 He can see your future.

00:45 And in both time periods, we lost to this hidden boss.

00:48 Just finding Kulix was tough enough.

00:50 But once we uncovered this 16-bit nightmare hiding away

00:53 in Monstro Town, we still had trouble taking him down.

00:56 Surrounded by a group of crystals, all of which

00:59 attack you independently, Kulix and his minions

01:01 boast some of the most broken attacks in the game

01:04 and have more HP combined than the final boss.

01:06 Lots of wipes eventually taught us to take down

01:16 those crystals first, starting from right to left,

01:19 though anything that can hit all of them is helpful.

01:22 That Final Fantasy victory theme that plays upon his defeat

01:25 is sweet.

01:26 But was little heard.

01:27 Number 9, SA-X, Metroid Fusion.

01:33 Metroid protagonist Samus Aran is often her own worst enemy,

01:43 literally.

01:44 And for many of us, we share her enmity

01:46 with her alien clone, the SA-X, immune to most of your weapons

01:51 with only the charge being being able to damage it.

01:53 Plus, this creepy doppelganger can use plenty of your own

01:56 weapons against you.

01:57 Even touching it does massive damage.

02:06 Oh, and it has multiple phases too.

02:09 So just when we defeated one, another

02:12 popped up to ruin our days.

02:13 Trial and error does eventually reveal repeated behaviors

02:16 that make for good exploits.

02:18 But it was hard to discern when holding onto our Game Boy

02:21 advances for dear life back in the day.

02:23 Number 8, Lavos, Chrono Trigger.

02:32 This giant tick from outer space haunted our dreams as kids.

02:43 The apocalyptic creature is central to every time period

02:47 in this time travel RPG.

02:48 Lavos can be challenged at several different points

02:51 in the story.

02:52 And depending on when you challenge it,

02:54 the fights can range from incredibly difficult

02:56 to downright impossible.

02:58 The multiple stages of Lavos are each brutal in their own right.

03:09 One imitates previous bosses in the game,

03:11 while another hides its true 4-minute appendages,

03:14 which was very confusing as a kid,

03:17 since the main body kept regenerating.

03:19 But hey, it's not like losing against Lavos

03:21 was the end of the world.

03:23 Oh, wait.

03:24 Number 7, Psycho Mantis, Metal Gear Solid.

03:32 One of the most infamous gaming bosses for good reason,

03:42 Psycho Mantis messed with our heads growing up.

03:45 The mad psychic dodged every attack we threw at him

03:48 and even somehow knew our play history

03:50 by reading our memory card.

03:51 I see that you enjoy Konami games.

03:54 The way to defeat Psycho Mantis is so outside the box

03:57 that almost no one figured it out on their own.

04:00 What kid unplugs their controller

04:02 and plugs it into the player 2 input?

04:04 It was so obtuse and bizarre that it's

04:06 no wonder none of us could beat him unassisted.

04:09 You used the other.

04:10 I wasn't able to read the future.

04:16 Number 6, King Crusher K. Rool, Donkey Kong 64.

04:20 Donkey Kong's nemesis is always tough,

04:30 but the Kremlin King's N64 bout is one we never

04:33 managed a knockout punch on.

04:35 To defeat King Crusher K. Rool, you

04:37 must face him in a boxing ring with all five playable

04:40 characters in five rounds.

04:42 Normal attacks and special weapons

04:44 don't work for the most part.

04:45 And it was all down to us to figure out

04:47 each round's unique gimmick for hurting the boss.

04:49 Oh, and if we didn't complete each in three minutes,

04:58 we had to start a round over.

05:00 And starting over too much meant redoing the whole thing.

05:04 Figuring this all out on the fly required so many do-overs

05:07 that many of us just took the 10 count and gave up.

05:10 Number 5, Shao Kahn, Mortal Kombat 2.

05:22 In the annals of cheap final bosses in final games,

05:32 none of them included quite as many rage quits as Shao Kahn.

05:35 The evil overlord would hand us our butts as soon

05:38 as he descended from his throne.

05:40 Each of his attacks does a third of your health bar,

05:43 while your own attacks feel heavily nerfed against them.

05:45 In addition to testing our might,

05:54 Shao Kahn tested our patience and mental fortitude.

05:57 He just wouldn't go down, and he keeps taunting you.

06:00 There are few reliable ways to cheese Shao Kahn,

06:02 but figuring them out, particularly on the arcade version,

06:05 took more endurance and quarters than many of us had as kids.

06:09 Number 4, Death Egg Robot, Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

06:19 Dr. Eggman/Robotnik has created plenty

06:29 of malevolent machines to terrorize Sonic

06:31 and the youngsters controlling him,

06:33 but the Death Egg Robot is one that gave us all a hard time.

06:37 What makes it so difficult is that there are no rings

06:40 to collect beforehand, which means that if you take a hit,

06:43 you're going to die, and die we did, a lot.

06:47 The Death Egg Robot swings its spikes arms around

06:57 and tries to crush you beneath its feet.

06:59 Hitting this thing 12 times without getting hit yourself

07:02 gave you major bragging rights on the playground.

07:05 Number 3, Whiz Pig, Diddy Kong Racing.

07:13 In both of Whiz Pig's races, the magical porcine jerk

07:22 outspeeds you by a mile most of the time.

07:25 His thundering footsteps will forever torment us.

07:28 In most races, boosts are more of a suggestion

07:31 than a requirement, but against Whiz Pig,

07:33 not only are they essential, but you basically

07:36 need to perform a maneuver with them

07:38 that the game never explains to you to stay ahead.

07:40 Figuring out that we needed to let go of the accelerator

07:50 as we hit them to go faster was impossible when we were kids,

07:54 unless it was by accident.

07:55 Still, even if we never beat him,

07:58 Whiz Pig's theme is quite the beat.

08:00 Number 2, Yellow Devil, Mega Man.

08:08 This boss may have been made by Dr. Wily,

08:17 but we're pretty sure an actual demon

08:19 had a hand in its creation too.

08:21 A late and extremely difficult boss,

08:23 the Yellow Devil disassembles and reassembles itself

08:26 on different sides of the screen,

08:28 forcing you to dodge its small body blobs

08:30 as they shoot towards you.

08:31 Getting hit even once will knock you back

08:34 and make it more likely that the others hit you too.

08:37 Without perfect timing, most of us

08:38 found it impossible to overcome.

08:40 A select few found a way though, mostly

08:50 by exploiting a glitch that happens when you pause

08:53 while using the Thunder Beam.

08:54 It may have bested us in the past, but not today, devil.

08:57 Before we unveil our top pick, here's an honorable mention.

09:08 Majora, the Legend of Zelda, Majora's Mask,

09:11 three difficult phases that require using every item.

09:14 And mask just right, no problem.

09:18 [SCREAMING]

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09:43 Number one, Mike Tyson, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out.

09:47 [MUSIC PLAYING]

09:50 Experimentation usually led us to success

09:57 against most of these bosses.

09:58 But against Kid Dynamite, there was

10:00 nothing we could do but fail over and over again.

10:04 For the first part of the fight, all he throws

10:13 are one hit knockout uppercuts, which

10:15 means you basically have to memorize his patterns by trying

10:18 over and over to beat him.

10:20 Even blocking isn't practical, since it still

10:22 does a ton of damage to you.

10:24 As kids, many of us felt like we stood a better chance

10:27 challenging the real Mike Tyson than overcoming

10:30 his 8-bit counterpart.

10:31 Well, we might be getting a little bit beside ourself.

10:34 Is there a boss fight that traumatized you

10:43 as a kid that was so tough we blocked it from our memories?

10:47 Share your favorites in the comments below.

10:49 But try to go easier on us than they did.

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10:55 Compared to you, I'm not so bad.

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