Games are Unbeatable

kick · Post by **kick** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:37 am

jtrevor99 wrote:As far as hard games go, I'd put Gradius III on master (or was it impossible?) mode near the top. THAT game was unforgiving.

The Japanese arcade version is much harder.Even the EASY mode is too much of a challenge.It's so d***n hard!

For a good shmup challenge,try Phalanx for the SNES on "Funny" mode.
F****n' unbeatable

Super Castlevania IV on the SNES was pretty easy to beat.

corronchilejano · Post by **corronchilejano** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:35 pm

Metatron wrote:
jtrevor99 wrote: And the final (hidden) boss of Demon's Crest is crazy hard too. You had to have the semi-secret "Ultimate" form to even get to fight him...and good luck beating him.
Eh, beating the Dark Demon isn't too hard.. it's just a matter of having four full health potions. After that it jut becomes a battle of attritrion.

I beat him without getting touched and with no potions. I also finish Contra III in hard wihtout continuing.

Gradius III is hard, yeah, but it's playable...

But I could never beat Battletoads on the original NES. I beat it in an emu without save stating, but that doesn´t count because I was old, experienced, and I had nothing to do.

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:56 pm

games were so much harder when I was a kid

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:59 pm

darkbenny wrote:games were so much harder when I was a kid

The concept of challenge has been lost these days.

Bent · Post by **Bent** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:53 pm

Exactly. I miss games like Megaman.

crocomire · Post by **crocomire** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:26 pm

I beat Super Castlevania 4 without any save state (normal and hard mode)... it's not impossible, you have passwords. Contra is beatable for my on easy mode and normal modes...

Like Battle Toads... now THAT'S a hard game

Hard? it's IMPOSSIBLE!!! This game make all players crazy...

The concept of challenge has been lost these days.

You right...

kamaitachi · Post by **kamaitachi** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:27 pm

Has anyone else here played 8 Eyes? Do you think that game was hard?

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:24 pm

Deathlike2 wrote:
darkbenny wrote:games were so much harder when I was a kid
The concept of challenge has been lost these days.

agree++

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:34 pm

kamaitachi wrote:Has anyone else here played 8 Eyes? Do you think that game was hard?

8 eyes was a bitch if you didn't pick the right order to frag the bosses in.

jtrevor99 · Post by **jtrevor99** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:19 am

Corronchilejano wrote: But I could never beat Battletoads on the original NES. I beat it in an emu without save stating, but that doesn´t count because I was old, experienced, and I had nothing to do.

Betcha never beat Battletoads in 2 player mde.

Firon · Post by **Firon** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:04 am

Corronchilejano, Gradius 3 isn't that hard.

MisterJones · Post by **MisterJones** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:58 am

Targa/Rendering Ranger R2

jtrevor99 · Post by **jtrevor99** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:59 am

Firon wrote:Corronchilejano, Gradius 3 isn't that hard.

C'mon guys, I said it was hard in the highest difficulty level. I never had much trouble on the first three settings.

*just thought of another one*
Hmm, this one definitely takes the cake, at least for me. Super Mario Bros. - The Lost Levels. World 2 was the equivalent of world 8 in the original Bros. in terms of difficulty. I started out with 128 lives in 1-1 and had used them all up by the time I got to world 9.

Neo Kaiser · Post by **Neo Kaiser** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:07 am

Ikaruga on single player.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:07 am

jtrevor99 wrote:
Firon wrote:Corronchilejano, Gradius 3 isn't that hard.
C'mon guys, I said it was hard in the highest difficulty level. I never had much trouble on the first three settings.

*just thought of another one*
Hmm, this one definitely takes the cake, at least for me. Super Mario Bros. - The Lost Levels. World 2 was the equivalent of world 8 in the original Bros. in terms of difficulty. I started out with 128 lives in 1-1 and had used them all up by the time I got to world 9.

You obviously didn't practice enough. Any of the castle levels were much more tough than World 2.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:09 am

All you guys need to play some IKARUGA.

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:34 am

Ikaruga isnt hard at all Hard mode without dying or dying maybe once on that damn 4th stage.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:12 am

How about those Ninja Turtle games for the NES? I heard they were impossible.

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:32 am

I dont think i ever beat the first one, I always got lost after the turtle van area

MisterJones · Post by **MisterJones** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:15 am

Act Raiser 2. And we know the enemies were not he though guys there, it was the fucking controls.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:39 pm

super gouls & ghosts
Act Raiser 2

Seconded.

What the hell were they thinking when they ruined Actraiser 2?

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:01 pm

Whe I was a kid, there was a "Videocentro" here at my town, they only had 3 SNES games to rent. A top-down helicopter shooter in which you fought across different time periods or something like that (Which I haven't been able to find in rom form), U.N. Squadron and SUPER GHOULS AND GHOSTS.

Yeah, so I was able to finish SUPER GHOULS AND GHOSTS.

TWICE. You should why twice, if not, then that's great for you.

Bent · Post by **Bent** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:14 pm

kamaitachi wrote:Has anyone else here played 8 Eyes? Do you think that game was hard?

Yes. It didn't help that I was 8 years old, didn't get any instruction manual with it, and before the internet and help files existed. Took me a long time just to figure out the controls.

Stifu · Post by **Stifu** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:16 pm

Bent wrote:Yes. It didn't help that I was 8 years old, didn't get any instruction manual with it

I don't think I've ever read an instruction manual for a console game...

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:25 pm

eh, yea lost levels is kinda what i miss about most games back in that era... there shoulda been more great sequels to platformer's back then...

it was challenging and i needed help on maybe 5 levels... (i got my bro to do them for me) but aside from that very thoroughly enjoyed it... and that was on a real SNES maybe 7 months ago now? (im 18 at the moment) and still got the game... shame it doesn't include SMW or SMW2 in it -.-'