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* ''VideoGame/Panic'' has some of this. Every area has at least one button that warps you to another scene, and the ones that have more than that often have one to send you backwards. So unless you have a photographic memory pertaining to which button does what, be prepared to spend a long time repeating scenarios. Also, [[NonStandardGameOver some buttons instantly end the game]].

* Any game by {{Cactus}} that involves puzzles or multiple endings. the ''Mondo'' series (which is approaching a third game) are large offenders, ''MondoMedicals'' being the most {{egregious}} of the two released games.

* TheAngryVideoGameNerd points out that having the manual is essential to playing the games in the Magnavox Odyssey console. Otherwise it would be near impossible to figure out what to do with two player-controlled squares and the plastic overlays (and sometimes, real pieces and tokens) used for each game.

* ''MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames'' falls very mildly to this trope, but it's susceptible all the same. One of Peach's missions requires her to perform a shout in the hammer throw three consecutive times, which nothing in the game or the guide tells you how to do even once. On the plus side, learning how to do it tends to give you extra distance.

** How about finding constellations? And the fact that most help systems for that area (that find it automatically) will get you banned?

* In ''The Guardian Legend'' for the NES, the gates to several of the Corridors (the space-shooter areas) are Guide Dang Its to open.One such message says a corridor is sealed permanently; to open it, you have to visit a certain Blue Lander three times in a row(god knows who could figure this out).

** This may very well qualify as the stupidest design decision Midway ever made. The requirements are flat-out ridiculous, and you get ONE SHOT at each for the entire game. This was a staple in my arcades up to at least 2000, and not one player I ever saw...NOT ONE...ever found a single member. Before I looked it up on the Internet, I didn't even know that was what "wings earned" referred to!
** Keep in mind this was an ''arcade'' game. It wouldn't be the first example of an arcade developer forcing replay value.

* ''Meong'' from ''{{Action 52}}'' took this to extremes: just learning to ''play'' it was hard to figure out, and the guide was no help.

* ''{{Hellsinker}}'' as a whole.

* [[http://graphjam.com/2010/09/26/funny-graphs-hax/ This]] graph describes this trope perfectly.

* The Flash Game [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/471068 PSAI]] is the most extreme example of Guide Dang It. Its so complicated the creator actually put a link ''in the game'' to the walkthrough!
** It seems that flash games, puzzle games in particular, seem to have a trend of posting a link to a walkthrough if one is available, so that players don't have to get frustrated and quit just because they can't beat a given level.

* Any special item in ''BubbleBobble'' has very obscure conditions to make it appear, so much that the many players might think they are completely random. For example, to make the yellow (rapid-fire) candy appear, you must jump 51 times. To get the potions, you have to fall through the level a certain number of times. Many of the special items are also triggered by collecting a certain number of another special item. It's insane. [[http://www.mcboof.com/games/bb/items2.html Take a look at this]] to see the conditions.

* In ''The Guardian Legend'' for the NES, the gates to several of the Corridors(the space-shooter areas) are Guide Dang Its to open.One such message says a corridor is sealed permanently; to open it, you have to visit a certain Blue Lander three times in a row(god knows who could figure this out).

* To reach the Robotizer in Zone 1 of Wacky Workbench (in ''SonicCD''), you must stand on a block that looks like a [[SmashingHallwayTrapsOfDoom crusher]] and let it slam you against the ceiling. Rather than crush you, it drops you into a secret area (although it looks very similar to the ''real'' SmashingHallwayTrapsOfDoom found later in Metallic Madness).

* To reach the Robotizer in Zone 1 of Wacky Workbench (in ''SonicCD''), you must stand on a block that looks like a [[SmashingHallwayTrapsOfDoom crusher]] and let it slam you against the ceiling. Rather than crush you, it drops you into a secret area (although it looks for all the world like a death trap).

* To reach the Robotizer in Zone 1 of Wacky Workbench (in ''SonicCD''), you must stand on a block that looks like a crusher and let it slam you against the ceiling. Rather than crush you, it drops you into a secret area (although it looks for all the world like a death trap).

* ''Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games'' falls very mildly to this trope, but it's susceptible all the same. One of Peach's missions requires her to perform a shout in the hammer throw three consecutive times, which nothing in the game or the guide tells you how to do even once. On the plus side, learning how to do it tends to give you extra distance.

* Any special item in BubbleBobble has very obscure conditions to make it appear, so much that the many players might think they are completely random. For example, to make the yellow (rapid-fire) candy appear, you must jump 51 times. To get the potions, you have to fall through the level a certain number of times. Many of the special items are also triggered by collecting a certain number of another special item. It's insane. [[http://www.mcboof.com/games/bb/items2.html Take a look at this]] to see the conditions.

* Any game by Cactus that involves puzzles or multiple endings. the Mondo series (which is approaching a third game) are large offenders, MondoMedicals being the most {{egregious}} of the two released games.
** Another notable offender is Stench Mechanics, which can lock you out of two endings if you [[spoiler: get the suit before inhaling the purple stench]]. That combined with some counter-intuitive moments ([[spoiler: turning on EVERY LIGHT despite captain's orders]], for instance) makes for some headaches.

* ''Meong'' from {{Action 52}} took this to extremes: just learning to ''play'' it was hard to figure out, and the guide was no help.
* {{Shivers}} had quite a few. Fortunately, the earlier puzzles were [[AllThereInTheManual in the manual]], but others, such as the red door and Egyptian door puzzles, were almost impossible.

* ''Meong'' from {{Action 52}} took this to extremes: just learning to ''play'' it was hard to figure out, and the guide was no help.

* The tie-game ''2010 FIFA WorldCup South Africa'' game has achievements requiring you to use specific teams, but unless you were a master of World Cup trivia, there's no way to figure it out which ones from the information in game. For example the achievement "Second Trip, First Goal" requires you to qualify with a team that has made it to the World Cup in the past without scoring once, and then score. [[hottip:Give up?: Trinidad & Tobago, China, Canada, Greece, Congo, and Indonesia.]]