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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Dec 24, 2017 16:04:08 GMT -5
Contra 3. So thankful for cheat codes and game genies. Haha.
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Post by cuppacoffee - slight return on Dec 24, 2017 16:06:56 GMT -5
Going waaaayy back... Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text-based adventure on the Commodore 64.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Dec 24, 2017 16:25:18 GMT -5
Contra: Shattered Soldier, a.k.a Shattered Controller.
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Post by RedSmile on Dec 24, 2017 16:50:57 GMT -5
The Ghosts 'n Goblins series is notoriously difficult
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2017 16:59:19 GMT -5
Deadly Towers
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 24, 2017 17:13:46 GMT -5
The Ghosts 'n Goblins series is notoriously difficult Or in my terms, unplayable F*** that game
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Dec 24, 2017 17:17:28 GMT -5
Good luck beating Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus on higher difficulty levels without dying.
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Post by mizerable on Dec 24, 2017 17:22:15 GMT -5
Ghosts N Goblins is pretty easy actually once you get the learning curve down.
My personal most difficult was Ninja Gaiden 1. That last level is insane.
Batman is up there most notably for the Joker battle which I pretty much beat with luck.
The first Turtles game is hard due to the limited continues.
Games like Battletoads I don't really count because the game was made to beat you. The only thing that keeps it from being a good game is the fact it doesn't have unlimited continues. That's inexcusable for the length of it.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Dec 24, 2017 17:28:54 GMT -5
Rayxanber II / III (PC Engine CD-ROM) Shut down the internet. Someone here who isn't me knows about Rayxanber.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Dec 24, 2017 17:49:40 GMT -5
Magneto in X-Men:COTA was insanely difficult relative to the rest of the game.
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Post by Johnny on Dec 24, 2017 18:28:16 GMT -5
Contra III: The Alien Wars (SNES) Contra Hardcorps (Genesis) Alien vs. Predator 2000 Classic (PC) Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!! (NES) Castle in the Darkness (PC) Battletoads (NES/Genesis/Game Boy) Nam 1975 (Neo Geo) R-Type (Arcade) Rayxanber II / III (PC Engine CD-ROM) Kid Icarus (NES) I'm surprised to see kid Icarus on your list. It was the second game I ever owned, after super Mario 1. It wasn't easy but I would regularly finish it. Unlike almost ever other NES game ever. My vote goes to dragons lair. Or that f***ing "time traveller" arcade game!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2017 18:59:24 GMT -5
For me as a kid it was TMNT.
Damn seaweed
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Post by Ron Woodsman aka Shempaholic on Dec 24, 2017 20:02:06 GMT -5
I've tried some of the harder games from my childhood and been able to get through them, but Bart Vs The Space Mutants is such a failure of design, physics, playstyle and logic that it's near impossible to even want to beat, let alone try to. Bart Vs. The Space Mutants has some of the worst controls I've ever experienced in a video game. I think run and jump used the same button. I only made it to the second level a handful of times, never got any further than that. I didn't own it though, only rented it a bunch of times. It had some cool ideas but the execution was terrible.
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Post by eDemento2099 on Dec 24, 2017 20:04:56 GMT -5
Contra III: The Alien Wars (SNES) Contra Hardcorps (Genesis) Alien vs. Predator 2000 Classic (PC) Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!! (NES) Castle in the Darkness (PC) Battletoads (NES/Genesis/Game Boy) Nam 1975 (Neo Geo) R-Type (Arcade) Rayxanber II / III (PC Engine CD-ROM) Kid Icarus (NES) I'm surprised to see kid Icarus on your list. It was the second game I ever owned, after super Mario 1. It wasn't easy but I would regularly finish it. Unlike almost ever other NES game ever. My vote goes to dragons lair. Or that f***ing "time traveller" arcade game! Well, I beat Kid Icarus once or twice, but I'm sure you agree it's a very difficult game. I know what you mean about overcoming high difficulty: Castlevania 3 (Dracula's Curse) is definitely a tough game, but I can beat it multiple times in one sitting without too much stress, simply because I've mastered the game and gotten accustomed to its stiff controls. Same goes for Zelda 2 (The Adventure of Link), except that game doesn't have stiff controls. Dragon's Lair does not present a fair challenge. The arcade game affords you almost no control over your character, and is arbitrary about when you can and can't control him. Bad controls (which were a byproduct of the laserdisc medium's technological limitations) artificially spiked the difficulty. As for the NES port, well, the AVGN thoroughally explained the game's faults and why its difficulty is largely a product of bad game design rather than a tough but fair challenge.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Dec 24, 2017 20:06:56 GMT -5
No mention of the Super Star Wars trilogy?
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Post by J is Justice on Dec 24, 2017 20:09:16 GMT -5
Resonance of Fate Huge learning curve, little leeway if you f*** up, multiple battles with no opportunity to save or heal in-between all make it fiendishly difficult. Yeah, it was tough. Great game, though.
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Post by J is Justice on Dec 24, 2017 20:19:07 GMT -5
Battletoads, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Demon's Souls, Fire Emblem Awakening (classic mode) are the hardest games I've played.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2017 21:00:55 GMT -5
The Last Eichhof (DOS, 1993)
If you can finish it without cheating, you are one heck of a hand-to-eye coordinated gamer.
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Post by mizerable on Dec 24, 2017 21:35:53 GMT -5
For me as a kid it was TMNT. Damn seaweed Funny thing is...that's the easiest level.
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Post by Ludwig Kaiser’s Walk on Dec 24, 2017 21:58:03 GMT -5
TMNT and Contra for me. Love them both too, just super difficult.
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