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Post by Kash Flagg on Feb 16, 2010 21:08:31 GMT -5
I just wrote an article for my site about old school videogames I never wanted to play again because of various reasons. *quick shill* It can be found here: mymomthinksimfunny.com/WP/?p=883Anyway, I was wondering what video games drove you to such madness that you wanted to go back in time and prevent the actual game system from being developed?
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Feb 16, 2010 21:11:37 GMT -5
King's Quest V for one. Honestly, so many of those old Sierra games were just designed to be impossible without buying a hint book....still loved them, and somehow beat them.
An example of KQV's bulls***, though....and I'm going off the top of my head, here, but at one point in the game, there is a cat in the background chasing a mouse. If you don't throw a shoe at that cat to save the mouse, you automatically lose later in the game. So if you didn't have a save file back before the cat gets the mouse, or if you can't figure that out (Because the game gives you NO indication thats what you missed), well, yer S.O.L., King Graham.
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Post by strykerdarksilence on Feb 16, 2010 21:20:22 GMT -5
That Star Trek game is freaking murder. The mines level where you have a 4 freaking huge mazes to negotiate to find a few trapped people, with weird snail things popping out of the ground and being bitches to hit.
AND you have to go back there again.
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Feb 16, 2010 21:23:12 GMT -5
That Star Trek game is freaking murder. The mines level where you have a 4 freaking huge mazes to negotiate to find a few trapped people, with weird snail things popping out of the ground and being bitches to hit. AND you have to go back there again. I'm pretty sure I never even beat the first part. I rented it as a kid thinking it'd be awesome...ugh. Sad thing is, IMO, the only even remotely decent Star Trek games ever made were a couple of point-and-click adventure DOS games.
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Post by Kash Flagg on Feb 16, 2010 21:29:22 GMT -5
The land level was fine (only ever made it to the first one), it's the flying crap that makes this game so terrible. Why won't the ship stop long enough to fire a shot that won't hit some random planet, killing millions!?
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Post by The Booty Disciple on Feb 16, 2010 21:35:35 GMT -5
My list starts and ends with Contra. The Konami Code? Yeah...definitely needed to have that if I had any chance.
Great game, and insanely addictive, but it used to give me fits.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2010 21:46:54 GMT -5
While what I played of it wasn't so much 'difficult', Secret of Mana was one of the most painful experiences I've ever had in my life. Just... How the hell is this game so popular?
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Feb 16, 2010 21:54:00 GMT -5
While what I played of it wasn't so much 'difficult', Secret of Mana was one of the most painful experiences I've ever had in my life. Just... How the hell is this game so popular? The music, the art, and the fact that it was most people's first experience with a multiplayer RPG, probably. Thats why I loved it. Helps if you played it when it first came out. I'm a big fan but I will say its become somewhat over-rated.
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Post by mrwednesdaynight on Feb 16, 2010 22:03:14 GMT -5
Right now I have a game driving me insane. Advance Wars Dual Strike. Its a great game, don't get me wrong. But I am on war room mode. Mial's Hope, 2.5 bonus difficulty. I honestly don't think it can be beat. I can it the map on any other difficulty. But not that one. A game on my black list? Killer Instinct. The only fighting game I never played that not only cheats but also has an ego. If you win too much it will pull out an ultra combo that you can't block, won't be ready for, thus lose right away. This makes it impossible to get a long enough winning streak to unlock something i could never unlock. That game made me honest to god violent. I became a danger to myself and others and as a result of that game cheating, i cause more propriety damage than a sane person should. I had to force myself to stop playing that game for my own safety and the safety of anyone in my zip code.
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Feb 16, 2010 22:11:10 GMT -5
Right now I have a game driving me insane. Advance Wars Dual Strike. Its a great game, don't get me wrong. But I am on war room mode. Mial's Hope, 2.5 bonus difficulty. I honestly don't think it can be beat. I can it the map on any other difficulty. But not that one. A game on my black list? Killer Instinct. The only fighting game I never played that not only cheats but also has an ego. If you win too much it will pull out an ultra combo that you can't block, won't be ready for, thus lose right away. This makes it impossible to get a long enough winning streak to unlock something i could never unlock. That game made me honest to god violent. I became a danger to myself and others and as a result of that game cheating, i cause more propriety damage than a sane person should. I had to force myself to stop playing that game for my own safety and the safety of anyone in my zip code. MKII on SNES would do the same thing. If you do too good, it suddenly rapes you and decides that none of your moves will work, the CPU blocks everything and throws you over and over till you die.
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Post by Hypnotix on Feb 16, 2010 22:21:05 GMT -5
Ninja Gaiden on the NES. I was so glad to see the AVGN cover it in his latest video. I have never beaten that game, and no matter what anyone says (and yes I've seen YouTube videos) I refuse to believe it can be beaten. I don't know anyone who has beaten the game. Its a great game, and I can make it all the way to the last level, and have even gotten to the final boss, but its impossible to beat in my eyes.
Also, I have never, in over 20 years, beaten Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out! I love that game, and I've beaten all the other Punch-Outs, but still cannot beat Iron Mike. He's always had it.
Also, Life Force and Gradius. Loved the games, but god were they insane. Never beat them.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Feb 16, 2010 23:06:41 GMT -5
I'll cover my thoughts on some of the games mentioned here and on Kash's article (provided that I have any experience with it.
The Smurfs Never played it on the Atari. I imagine it was balls on that system. The game was designed for the Colecovision, which was leaps and bounds more technically advanced than the Atari (some components were still used by Sega and Nintendo for later gaming systems). The game starts out being way too easy (an ideal trait for a kids game). Ince you get to Gargamel's castle and rescue Smurfette, she gets captured again and you have to do it again at a higher difficulty. By the time rescue her the third time, the difficulty gets cranked up to something fierce. The attack animals are unrelenting and most of the jumps require pinpoint accuracy to make.
Out of this World Man, this game will drive you nuts. I don;t understand how anyone got anything accomplished in that game. Seriously, I never got past the third screen after you escape the cage. Not even once.
ST:TNG This game drove me nuts. It was actually damned fun, but those space battles were killer. What made it worse is that the first battle sets a precedent that was horrendously destroyed from that point on. In the first battle, you are not at warp and can use the phasers. That made the battle rather easy. Unfortunately, that standard does not remain. The really cruel part was that after you win the second battle your ship is in ruins and is ripe for the picking in a later battle.
Contra Yeah, it was freakishly hard. Still, I loved it. Never got colse to beating it, but who cares?
King's Quest V I beat it without a guide, but I had to restart way too many times. I can think of at least 3 fatal mistakes that cause you to lose the game...long after you actually made the freaking mistake. That was just wrong.
Killer Instincts Well, I was never that great at the damned game anyways, so I was never at any danger of making the game cheat me because I was doing too well.
Ninja Gaiden Loved it. Beat it. Still, it was insanely hard.
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Post by TuneinTokyo on Feb 16, 2010 23:31:05 GMT -5
Super Mario Bros. 3 NES
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Post by Paul on Feb 16, 2010 23:31:23 GMT -5
E.T for the Atari 2600. If you've ever played it, you know why...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2010 23:37:16 GMT -5
I love Final Fantasy Tactics but losing a character that you've had since the beginning of the game, leveled up and cross-classed until you've gotten a Dancer or a Bard, to a chocobo of all things, forcing you to restart a 2 hour battle, can drive you insane.
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Feb 17, 2010 0:27:52 GMT -5
I love Final Fantasy Tactics but losing a character that you've had since the beginning of the game, leveled up and cross-classed until you've gotten a Dancer or a Bard, to a chocobo of all things, forcing you to restart a 2 hour battle, can drive you insane. Not as bad as Tactics Ogre where you have no chance of reviving your characters.
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Post by eDemento2099 on Feb 17, 2010 17:56:26 GMT -5
Battletoads - NES
Milon's Secret Castle - NES
Dragon's Lair - NES
Transformers - Famicom (Japanese NES)
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Feb 17, 2010 18:08:49 GMT -5
shinobi on megadrive/genisis - the bosses always f***ed me up
Loom on pc - i cracked it and ended up using a walkthrough
probably loads more but ive supressed those memories for frustration
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Post by Alucard on Feb 17, 2010 18:10:34 GMT -5
I love Elevator Action, but damned if I can't even beat the first level.
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Feb 17, 2010 18:13:51 GMT -5
xevious
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