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Most difficult old-school game?


#31 jedileroy   CAG Veteran CAGiversary!   28 Posts   Joined 15.9 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 02:56 AM

NES

Batman
Silver Surfer
Blaster Master
Fester's Quest
Ninja Gaiden Series
Bayou Billy

#32 ITDEFX   My foot itches..must be athlete's foot CAGiversary!   17270 Posts   Joined 18.7 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 03:10 AM

gears of war 2 on insane it pisses me off


Did you read the title of the thread? We are talking about OLD SCHOOL...NOT YOUR DAMN GEARS OF WAR! Now GTFO!!


Ghouls and Ghosts (torture)
Super Ghouls and Ghosts (more torture)
Mike Tyson's Punch out (Made it to Super Macho Man once without codes)
Blaster Master (can't remember much about this one but it was very tough)
Adventures of Bayou Billy (I still have nightmares of the driving levels to this day not to mention the enemies that would not die)
Contra (without the Konami code)
TMNT (Fuck you dam level) :bomb:
Ninja Gaiden (I beat Bloody Malth once and got past the first boss of act 6 then couldn't beat Jaquio and gave up)
Battletoads both nes and gameboy versions never played the snes one (fucking all the levels past the first one)

100% agreed.

Ghouls and Ghosts :bomb::bomb::bomb:

#33 xXTwilightXx   CaG Intermediate Nubbie CAGiversary!   236 Posts   Joined 13.0 Years Ago  

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Posted 24 June 2010 - 03:25 AM

Battle Toads
Contra / w/out the code (forgot which one)
Ghouls and Ghosts
and Tmnt ( the part where you have to swim, i reckon that's the 1st time i ever rage quit on a video game )

#34 mossman43   Castlevania Freak CAGiversary!   576 Posts   Joined 13.9 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 03:33 AM

The original Ninja Gaiden is very easy to me. I still play through it at least once a week on my top loader. Ninja Gaiden 2 and 3 on the other hand are brutal. I only beat the second one once and never finished the third. Best game series ever along with Castlevania!!

#35 ZForce915   Group hug! CAGiversary!   6518 Posts   Joined 19.6 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 03:35 AM

Am I the only one that found the first MegaMan hard?

#36 dothatthing   CAGiversary! CAGiversary!   65 Posts   Joined 12.9 Years Ago  

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Posted 24 June 2010 - 03:57 AM

Zillion for the sega master system after you finally get to the end, you only have 10 minutes to escape the entire underground base...
that and Shinobi, without cheat codes, of course.

#37 Halo05   DJ Roomba CAGiversary!   7924 Posts   Joined 17.5 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 04:13 AM

Am I the only one that found the first MegaMan hard?


Nope. The Rock Monster in Wily's castle murders me every damn time. I've been trying to beat that game for close to 20 years.

#38 ITDEFX   My foot itches..must be athlete's foot CAGiversary!   17270 Posts   Joined 18.7 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 05:06 AM

Zillion for the sega master system after you finally get to the end, you only have 10 minutes to escape the entire underground base...
that and Shinobi, without cheat codes, of course.


haha...I remember having to draw out the symbols ...never got around to beating it :(

also it was the first game where after reading the manual, I asked my dad "what's suicide? "

:D

#39 dothatthing   CAGiversary! CAGiversary!   65 Posts   Joined 12.9 Years Ago  

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Posted 24 June 2010 - 05:14 AM

Haha, cool! I loved Zillion... At the time there weren't many japanese games. My sister and I would play it together in order to keep track of the symbols, we had code words for each one to make it easier to remember. I loved the music for that game, too. I loved the music from all those old-school really hard games. If anyone's looking to get inspired to beat any of these oldies-but-goodies, listening to the chiptunes is a great way to get in the mood, you can find 'em at http://ocremix.org/

#40 ZForce915   Group hug! CAGiversary!   6518 Posts   Joined 19.6 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 03:47 PM

Nope. The Rock Monster in Wily's castle murders me every damn time. I've been trying to beat that game for close to 20 years.


Glad I'm not alone.

I also remember using a Game Genie on this game and still reaching a part that I couldn't get by. Or some kind of glitch where I was stuck somewhere I couldn't jump out of and had to reset the game.

#41 Spyder187   Scratch & Sniff! Banned   2473 Posts   Joined 13.3 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 03:50 PM

Wheel of Fortune. I never win....

#42 Number83   ¡oɹq 'ʎɹoʇs ןooɔ CAGiversary!   10560 Posts   Joined 17.7 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 03:54 PM

If we're talking Genesis, I'd say Back to the Future 2/3. I couldn't get past the first screen part.

NES: Megaman... all of them. (Dishonorable mention to Deadly Towers and the stupid poison puddles, and Spelunker... oh, how I wanted to love that game but it was pure frustration.)


I loved Deadly Towers!!!!!

Needs a remake, ASAP!
___

My Achilles Heel was Wizards and Warriors...the jumping was unforgiving.

Oh, and Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System...Damn, was Lassic a hard boss battle.

#43 FOnewearl   Whooooooooa Bundy! CAGiversary!   1750 Posts   Joined 18.7 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 04:46 PM

I'll agree with Mega Man because of the Rock Monster, I couldn't beat him when I first got to him and never got back to it and finally beating him and the game for almost a year.

Rush'n Attack (NES) - Nobody has mentioned this yet, I remember it took me about a year to beat and was hard mostly because you couldn't continue/had limited continues and no codes to help you out.

I would also mention that many of the Sega Master System games were really hard compared to the vast majority of NES games, it's nice to see I'm not the only one that remembers and liked the music in Zillion lol

#44 plasticbathmonki   Powered by apathy CAGiversary!   1139 Posts   Joined 15.4 Years Ago  

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Posted 24 June 2010 - 05:15 PM

The Space Harrier games, Friday the 13th, Top Gun (I now hate aircraft carriers because of it), TMNT1, Contra (sans the code).

#45 evildeadjedi   RIP DIO \m/ \m/ CAGiversary!   4750 Posts   Joined 14.6 Years Ago  

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Posted 24 June 2010 - 05:23 PM

Top Gun (I now hate aircraft carriers because of it),



Good call it was a bitch trying to land on the carriers!

#46 waxHead   Gamer CAGiversary!   2845 Posts   Joined 19.2 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 05:25 PM

Anyone here ever play Milon's Secret Castle for the NES? I remember that game becoming incredibly difficult in the later levels. I spent countless hours playing it and I know I never beat it.

#47 Chacrana   You wa Cock CAGiversary!   22669 Posts   Joined 19.2 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 06:27 PM

Anyone here ever play Milon's Secret Castle for the NES? I remember that game becoming incredibly difficult in the later levels. I spent countless hours playing it and I know I never beat it.


Wasn't that the game that basically required you to buy Nintendo Power to see how to get through the levels? I remember it being terrible.

#48 waxHead   Gamer CAGiversary!   2845 Posts   Joined 19.2 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 07:01 PM

Wasn't that the game that basically required you to buy Nintendo Power to see how to get through the levels? I remember it being terrible.



Good question... if that's the case, it would go a long way toward explaining why I had so much trouble with it ;)

#49 waxHead   Gamer CAGiversary!   2845 Posts   Joined 19.2 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 07:05 PM

The original Ghouls 'n Ghost and Super Ghost n' Ghost. Capcom must be pretty sadistic to even sell that to kids.



Did you mean Ghosts N Goblins for the NES? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_'n_Goblins

THAT game was mean as hell!

Another one that I loved playing and then almost throwing against the wall was Super Smash TV for the SNES.

#50 ITDEFX   My foot itches..must be athlete's foot CAGiversary!   17270 Posts   Joined 18.7 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 10:57 PM

The Space Harrier games.


Space Harrier was a lot of fun and fairly easy to beat... it can get crazy at times but still beatable.





Haha, cool! I loved Zillion... At the time there weren't many japanese games. My sister and I would play it together in order to keep track of the symbols, we had code words for each one to make it easier to remember. I loved the music for that game, too. I loved the music from all those old-school really hard games. If anyone's looking to get inspired to beat any of these oldies-but-goodies, listening to the chiptunes is a great way to get in the mood, you can find 'em at http://ocremix.org/



Back around 1999, when you could find some good stuff on Napster before it became someone's bitch, I clearly remembered some sort of vocal remix to the zillion music in Japanese...even though I can't remember what they were saying, it was very pleasing on the ears....does anyone remember this?

Edited by ITDEFX, 25 June 2010 - 12:46 AM.


#51 Fadikun   CAGiversary! CAGiversary!   210 Posts   Joined 15.4 Years Ago  

Posted 24 June 2010 - 11:03 PM

Battletoads, especially with two players. We couldn't even beat that ish while cheating with an emulator (that is, saving every second)!

#52 HeroesNoMore   CAG Veteran CAGiversary!   74 Posts   Joined 12.9 Years Ago  

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Posted 25 June 2010 - 10:39 AM

I put in another vote for Ghosts n' Goblins.

My grandparents used to take me to the video store every week to rent a game, so I played quite a bit in childhood...and playing GnG that weekend was one of the first truly traumatic experiences of my life.

My nerd rage was so severe I never touched the series again until Maximo came out...and that's only because I wasn't aware of what it was at the time!

Freakin' Capcom.

#53 Sequelcast   CAG Veteran CAGiversary!   59 Posts   Joined 12.8 Years Ago  

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Posted 26 June 2010 - 03:31 PM

Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom on the NES is really hard. Good luck with the rising lava in 2-2, the cheap Amazon flying fishes in 3-1, and the endless spike pits in 4-1.

#54 CapAmerica   Dead or Alive Fanboy CAGiversary!   1401 Posts   Joined 18.7 Years Ago  

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Posted 26 June 2010 - 03:57 PM

Battletoads, its the only game i can recall never finishing.

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#55 jputahraptor   CAGiversary! CAGiversary!   1267 Posts   Joined 18.8 Years Ago  

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Posted 26 June 2010 - 04:12 PM

I'd say Metal Slug 3, I can get to the final level with 15 continues on the psp anthology and need every last one just to get through the final boss.

#56 trailmix10   Sonic! CAGiversary!   164 Posts   Joined 13.0 Years Ago  

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Posted 28 June 2010 - 11:51 PM

Im going to go old school and say pole position for the 5200. The way you have to hold the controller pad and having to accelerate by pressing the back side buttons while moving the joystick makes the game nearly impossible to even qualify. Maybe i just aint a gamer lol
Im currently stuck on ps2 Contra shattered soldier

#57 Cloyd   Forever awaiting the English release of Moe Crystal. CAGiversary!   1040 Posts   Joined 16.6 Years Ago  

Posted 30 June 2010 - 07:14 PM

Anyone ever play Soldiers of Fortune: The Chaos Engine for the SNES (I think it came out for the Genesis too) I remember never being able to beat that game when I was a kid.


I loved the shit out of that game, though, I never beat it either. I never owned it and always had to rent...and I was a poor kid. :cry:

#58 Droenixjpn   The Waiting Gamer CAGiversary!   1381 Posts   Joined 14.4 Years Ago  

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Posted 30 June 2010 - 08:13 PM

E.T. You can never beat it.

#59 escapekey   I like the taste! CAGiversary!   474 Posts   Joined 18.8 Years Ago  

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Posted 30 June 2010 - 11:13 PM

E.T. You can never beat it.


E.T. is totally beatable. In fact, you can beat the whole game in a couple minutes. The questions is... do you want to?

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Posted 30 June 2010 - 11:27 PM

Battletoads and Ninja Gaiden.

Both ruined me.