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ellis123 posted...

Most of the Quest games from Seirra. They commonly have unwinnable states based on overlooking something. For instance, in King's Quest VI when you go to the Isle of Mists if you don't pick up everything in the village and leave your game is now unwinnable. If you go back you will get a game over and otherwise you will get stuck down the line.

Yeah Sierra games were notorious for this. For instance in King's Quest 5 you had Cedric the owl who for the majority of the game was useless. At one point in the game you get to an island and have to get him before leaving. Most gamers will probably be tempted to leave him, but if you don't it makes the game unwinnable at the end. That's the only time Cedric actually does something useful and it wasn't even intentional.

Kajagogo posted... Pre-Internet days, if you didn't have the letter attached to the instruction manual in StarTropics, you could not beat the game. Unless you already knew the code.

This was an issue for me since I rented the game back then and it didn't have the instruction manual. But I was still able to play later stages because it had the save files.