Some of you have never Wanna be the Guy and it shows.
I didn’t mind TMNT.
What still gives me PTSD is Shadow Of The Beast 2. I was utterly clueless on how to beat that game as a child, and as an adult I can literally watch someone beat it, know what to do, and still fuck it up.
Silver Surfer for the NES is way harder than TMNT. It’s possible, though I’ve never done it, to beat TMNT. AFAIK , Silver Surfer is actually possible to beat, but basically no one has done it.
Imagine souls games giving you only three lives before sending you back to the very beginning of the game.
Weirdly, that is the only one of the three I have beaten. Zero chance I could do it now of course.
The young’uns nowadays don’t know what a difficult game is. Not to mention the impossible ones.
Nice links! Ive played a good deal on the impossible list, i even 100% beat jet force gemini. Iirc the “true” ending pissed me off. Don’t remember why but i felt let down for all the work i did to get it
That geekyinc article is the most 100% written by ChatGPT wall of text that I’ve ever encountered in the wild.
I can proudly say I’ve beaten 4 of those on the original hardware, but it was probably around 2010 or so as an adult.
(Contra, Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania, Mega Man 1)
Same here, though I also beat Ghosts n Goblins. Honestly once you can reliably beat the first couple of stages, you can probably get through the whole game.
That one is super hard, although I definitely haven’t truly committed to an attempt yet.
Have you tried the remake?
I have, but I am old and sucky at “Nintendo hard” games now so it went about as I expected.
Contra is considered a difficult one? O.o
We beat that in co-op with my brother when we were like 6 and 8.
Konami games were hard, but not crazy hard. I don’t think it should be on any “hardest game” list either.
They probably mean without the cheat code. I think you started with 3 lives originally.
The internet really wasn’t a thing, we didn’t speak English, and we we’re 6 and 8.
We didn’t know about any cheat codes, my man.
Huh you seem tohave used a tmnt cover instead of greg tech new horizons
I completed TMNT as a kid… on Commodore 64. That version is admittedly a little bit easier than the NES version (some mechanics were missing, and an entire level is gone, as I recall). Still, I have no idea why people complain about the second level (river), it’s actually pretty fun. Compared to what’s to come later in the game.
To me, the definitive “hard” game is Metroid Prime 2: Echoes on GameCube. Dark Souls just makes me say “eeeeeehhhh this is probably doable, I’ll play this after I’m done with MP2E.”
(When I first played MP2E, I only got through the second to last boss. Then my MadCatz memory card died. Played through the game again, with the fury of million suns. 99% complete. Because I missed one optional scan. …One of these days I replay this bastard.)
I played a lot of metroid prime 1 & 2 as a kid but I dont remember thinking they were very hard. Maybe it’s time I revisited them
Elden is fair if you grind, explore and prepare for the enemies. Other games are basically “rhythm games” in disguise, you have to memorize the exact series of moves, in the exact order, with the right timing.
you have to memorize the exact series of moves, in the exact order, with the right timing
That applies very well to the Dark Soul series as well in my opinion
Didn’t play DS yet honestly, but if you can use the terrain, change builds and choose between close combat or ranger/magic weapon, then you have enough elasticity.
The real answer is probably DoDonPachi SDOJ. Inbachi, the true final boss, went undefeated for over ten years.
Fucking coral reef.
IIRC the issue with that was super janky hitboxes
Dam was only level 2 my friend and possibly the easiest level. I’m not even kidding here.
Sorry about the PTSD, but…
Fun fact: that’s one of the easiest levels in the game. It barely cracks the top 10 hardest levels in a game with 12 levels, and only because the first 2 are trivial to lull you into a false sense of security.
I watch a streamer who mastered speed running dozens of NES games. He says Battletoads was the hardest game to learn. Just getting through the game, not even pushing for a fast time, was extremely challenging. Much harder than TMNT 1 or Ninja Gaiden.
Yeah, for all the difficulty I had with the dam on NES TMNT as a kid, I saw a streamer do it last year I think (I believe on first attempt?) not realizing it was supposed to be difficult. Blew my mind.
I have never met anyone that could beat this level. It’s like it was made to sell the Game Genie.
I only got it by state save scumming in zsnes, and even then it was tough not to save yourself into a corner.
You have to memorize the level and jump a bit before that one tricky one comes on screen.
Child me could beat it after hours of repeated attempts and running out of continues.
Adult me went back after a decade. The muscle memory was still there and I beat it on the first try. I probably got about an 80% success rate on first attempts now. But level 4 and beyond I’m terrible.
Aww yeah. I’m gonna call Gold and Silver Pawn and see if they have this classic in stock.
I need to find an emulated version of this. Mine was faulty and always glitches as soon as you finished this stage so I never got to see neyond it for more than a few seconds. I’ve always wondered what was there!
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That don’t look like Takeshi’s Challenge
Why can’t a turtle swimm?
Elden Ring isn’t even the hardest Soulslike
In fact it’s probably the easiest, in the base game anyway, just due to the huge number of build options. Although DeS had some pretty broken builds.
Youre right, but its the most recent and the one that gets the most exposure. This is us getting old and classics being forgotten
Dark Souls 3 was only 8 years ago
Which is probably about half the life of some users commenting here
