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10 Feb 2005, 04:01 PM
galvatron

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Originally Posted by Zerodash

Adventures of Batman and Robin on Genny= Hardest fucking game ever.

nuh huh. I beat it with a week of just playing 1 game a night until I exhausted all lives/ continues.

For me:

Battletoads: it was in reach as I did get to level 11 once and consistently got to level 10 (damned suction cup bike...), but I went off to college and left the NES home. Now I'd have to work back up to being that good.

Zanac: As I couldn't bear not getting fully powered up, including shooting the stone face for super weapons, and invoking the game's full wrath (it's got dynamic difficulty levels based on how well armed your ship was) needless to say I got worked.

R.C. Pro Am: How do you stop the one car from just taking off and zipping around the track?! Also, as I said earlier, I couldn't resist powering up, so I always spelled Nintendo and got my car into a the higher league and promptly got my behind kicked.

Cobra Triangle: no excuses, it was just beyond me. If it wasn't jumping a waterfall, it was getting all my swimmers kidnapped or getting worked by a sea monster.

There are others that I didn't beat/ didn't get far on, but that was because even as a kid I didn't play a game that didn't immediately appeal to me. I actually hated games like Metal Gear, TMNT, and Metroid since I wanted instant action...I thought "why play something crappy when you can beat contra again?"
10 Feb 2005, 04:06 PM
mollipen

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Originally Posted by toxic

There are still difficult games today (Super Monkey Ball comes to mind) but with the emergence of the internet and strategy guides ... the idea of playing the same stage over and over again for 4 hours seems quaint.

My problem with games today and strat guides is that there are too many games that require one in order to play it properly, or to find a lot of the extra stuff. Extras shouldn't be obvious, but damn, make them so that in playing, I could actually figure out about them. Too many games have like an item that you would almost never find at one exact point, and if you don't happen to just come across it, you completely miss out on getting the extra character or whatever.

I'm playing Star Ocean 3 now, and I think this game is guilty of this. You get to a point where progression is damn tough without creating items and new weapons, but you almost need a strategy guide to really get involved in that.
10 Feb 2005, 04:11 PM
epmode

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

Anyone ever beat Gauntlet?

i'm 95% sure it's not possible, due to random level generation in later levels.
10 Feb 2005, 04:11 PM
galvatron

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

My problem with games today and strat guides is that there are too many games that require one in order to play it properly, or to find a lot of the extra stuff. Extras shouldn't be obvious, but damn, make them so that in playing, I could actually figure out about them. Too many games have like an item that you would almost never find at one exact point, and if you don't happen to just come across it, you completely miss out on getting the extra character or whatever.

Well, not only that, but I find I often think of the solution to a problem and not enter it correctly or just rule out the solution from over thinking things. Like in Elemental Gimmick Gear, there's a point where you roll into a ball and spin into a hole, but if you hit it from the wrong angle you just appear to spin against the hole as if it were just a texture on the wall...guess who gave up on the hole and wandered the maze for an hour. If there wasn't a FAQ to read, I'm sure I would've been even more pissed when I tried again and it magically worked.
10 Feb 2005, 04:13 PM
toxic

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Originally Posted by Mzo

Battletoads is doable, I can still beat it now.

I'll back you up on Athena, though. The furthest I ever got was the sky level. 5, I think. That game was so bad =(

I probably shouldn't have included Battletoads in my list. I have a history of problems with games that has vert-up or vert-down scrolling action (The later "falling" boards of Earthworm Jim comes to mind).

I also could have included many 16-bit shoot-em-ups. I just didn't have the skills required to beat those games. Legendary Wings is probably the hardest shmup I have beaten ... and I don't think that ranks as one of the hardest.

Another game that people list as "impossible", but I beat was Ghost and Goblins (Arcade and NES). I also beat Gauntlet .. but I think it took about 20 dollars worth of quarters and a few friends to do so.
10 Feb 2005, 04:16 PM
bbobb

What's with the lack of Chakan in this thread? That was easily one of the hardest games ever made... right up there with The Adventures of Batman & Robin.
10 Feb 2005, 04:27 PM
Mzo

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Originally Posted by Zerodash

Someone 'round here (damned if I remember who or in what thread) claimed to have beaten Batman & Robin...without gamegenie

Regus. And I believe him. As long as you get the right weapon powerup and keep it, it's possible.

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Originally Posted by galvatron

Cobra Triangle: no excuses, it was just beyond me. If it wasn't jumping a waterfall, it was getting all my swimmers kidnapped or getting worked by a sea monster.

Cobra fucking Triangle, I never beat that one >=[

But I really liked it. Same with Snake, Rattle, and Roll... never beat that game but I love it. Fuck, Rare was so good back then.
10 Feb 2005, 04:28 PM
galvatron

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Originally Posted by Mzo

Regus. And I believe him. As long as you get the right weapon powerup and keep it, it's possible.

No game genie for me either... and since Regus and I agreed on the strategy, I believe him too.
10 Feb 2005, 04:30 PM
Mzo

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Originally Posted by toxic

Another game that people list as "impossible", but I beat was Ghost and Goblins (Arcade and NES).

I only beat the Saturn version of GnG (because of unlimited continues), but I did do it twice to see the real ending =/
10 Feb 2005, 04:44 PM
Cowutopia

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Originally Posted by epmode

i'm 95% sure it's not possible, due to random level generation in later levels.

I thought it was possible on the NES, just insanely difficult.
Don't you have to collect letters to form some password, and then you've got one shot to get it right or something like that? Then you face a boss?

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