10 Most Brutally Difficult NES Games EVER
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- When "Nintendo hard" was genuinely impossible.
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Those games taught us valuable life lessons. Not everybody wins, life can be hard and unfair, and if you want to succeed you just have to try again and again and get good.
@@paulbennett2284 git gud braw
And that sometimes winning is just winning, you get no prize other than "you did it"
And cheat with no remorse
The games basically said "welcome to the real world, jackass!" to us.
Sage
Having no save option was brutal 😖
HatCHeTHaZ The first game I ever remember having a save option is zelda.
writing down the 20 random characters for a Metroid save and then when you start it back up, realizing you got something wrong and have to start over.
Keeping your console secretly turned on during the night (without your parents realizing it) so you wouldn't lose your progress. 😁
True story: when I was a kid we had a NES and put many, many hours into Super Mario Bros.
We opened it, hooked it up, and played for days. We grinded our way to the big uncrossable gap (8-2, i think??) and (ploop) down we would go. We would run through again and look for invisible blocks or something. We were missing something.
Dozens of times we made it to that damned gap.
A multitude of runs later, my friend figured out by accident that we had been playing the game for days, if not weeks at that point and didn't realize there was "B-speed" smfh.
Talk about a slap in the face, lol. Also...we read the instruction booklets from there on out, lol.
Live and learn, I guess lol
I played Super Mario Bros. 3 and made it to the first or second stage of the "underworld" only to lose all my lives and powerups. And this from the guy who beat Ninja Gaiden.
@PikaLink91 Ninja Gaiden. Oof. I remember that monster well lol
@@alterego6075 Haha, I sat down and played that one just to prove the AVGN wrong, and after 1 week of practice I was strolling through it. Completely memorizing the location of extra lives, weapon pick-ups, and what enemies I was better off avoiding and "off screening" xD I believe there's a complete 1 hour playthrough on my channel if you fancy.
I had a very similar experience. I also didn't know about accelerating in Mario until after a couple of weeks when a friend at school told me. I also had Metroid and I couldn't get anywhere for months. I kept picking up this item that looked like a bottle or...potion? I had no idea it was a "missile tank". I finally figured out you push select to change to missiles. Then I could open the orange doors that made a weird noise when you shoot them. I beat the game a few months later. Lesson learned: READ THE DAMN MANUAL!
@@TheYzeman Well I didn’t know English as a kid so I couldn’t read the manual xD though I suppose my parents could’ve read it. I played Super Mario Land and had a tough time also with those platforms that I later realized you could just run across.
To extrapolate on this: Hard Games with NO PAYOFF. I remember stubbornly going through the many levels of Gauntlet (Edit-thought it was 1 but seems it was 2) with my little brother only to be super disappointed with the lack of an ending and just starting again at level 1.
Payoff for the arcade owners because these games were made after the first home consoles were made so they still have the arcade put money in to play DNA and the more people have to retry the more profits!. Games today still have that mentality well game publishing companies but only difference is it's a upfront one time price and Michael transactions and extensions
Congrats on making it to the end I never got past the 2nd world. Finally saw a playthrough on Game Done Quick channel a few days ago
The only pay off i felt was the trauma bonding with friends playing through the story.
A winner is you !!
That’s not what extrapolate means. You meant elaborate.
10 Most Brutally Hard Arcade Games Of the 1990's
Carnevil was a fav of mind
Lol all of them. They were built to keep feeding them quarters.
At least 90's arcade had endings. The 80's arcade games...lol not so much.
ARCADE difficulty, was the loot boxes and MTX of the 90's. Designed to squeeze you every penny.
Regardless of how hard Friday The 13th may be, I still have some great childhood memories of playing it with my siblings!
Agreed. My brother and I had the whole neighborhood over like "can YOU figure out what we're supposed to do here?" It took longer than it should have for us all (and there were a dozen kids in my neighborhood!) to collectively decide "no, this game just sucks."
My wife was never into games growing up. The most she played was Mario64 and Mario kart. We bought a modded classic nes mini, and Friday the 13th was on the game list. She’s a horror nerd, and wanted to play it. Her timing and understanding of most games is off, but she dominated Friday the 13th. I was shocked when she fought off Jason 4 times, and didn’t die once. Something I’ve never done 😂 Apparently, her poor game reflexes is optimized for F13th
But how many times did she kill Jason?
You probably don’t know this, but us horror movie buffs, especially the hardcore ones, have sacrificed our future firstborn to the Old Gods for certain skills and talents. Playing horror based games with god-tier abilities is one of them. Kinda like how good Lucy Lawless is at writing things down in the Necronomicon, which is another skill.
MAD RESPECT FOR YOUR WIFE! Friday the 13th is one of my favorite games, and it is VERY difficult!
Call it bullshit
I actually did get through that first TMNT game without any help from my father or brothers. Why the hell did I need them!? I had a Game Genie.
Funny enough all these older games are a pain because of the massive punishment you get for dying.
I also beat TMNT...but I had a turbo controller, lol! I had game Genie, but I'm not sure why I don't remember using it to get through TMNT.
I don't remember it being that hard
I beat that game a few times, I think the biggest pain was that if any of the four turtles died, you didn't have the option to play that character again? IDK, was that the early 90's?
Looooooool
Came here to make sure #1 was #1. Clearly not disappointed, and also rather pleasantly surprised to see Solomon’s Key get some love. Along the same vein, I would recommend Solstice for a list such as this because it’s basically Solomon’s Key in an open faux-3D world; where you receive no help as to what your goal is as you traverse from screen to screen… you simply find out the hard way that everything wants to kill you.
Im actually surprised battletoads was number 1. It wasnt that hard it just had a few annoying levels where u had to memorize it or die.
As a kid I beat Ninja Gaiden 1 and TMNT, though remember it being very stressful. Battletoads I didn't even come close. The other game I remember as being frustratingly difficult was Werewolf, I think it was a level with waterfalls that made me permanently rage quit that one.
Battletoads had way too many bugs. I died way to much walking in a straight line and the ground just stopped responding
Ninja Gaiden 1 I only go to the jaquio, never got to the demon.
Beat TMNT at least once.
Castlevania 1 I beat once back in the day.
I found Double Dragon 3 to be the easiest of the 3. Unless you use the extra life cheat.
@@Douglas27Akira Not to mention that Clinger Winger is literally impossible to beat if you're doing 2-player
@@Douglas27Akirait didn't have bugs, you just weren't good at it.
@@renmcmanus Glad someone else remembers this. Agreed on it being great fun before the difficulty gets ridiculous.
An OG NES player here, I got my NES in 1988 at 12 years old. Every single one of these games hits me right in the nostalgia feels. I must be in a very small minority who actually liked Friday the 13th. Sure it had a lot of faults and was extremely hard, but I played it a lot(got it for my birthday). I even got into the music. Short, repetitive melody, but it was catchy. Buhbuh - buhbuh - buhbuh - buuuh - buhbuh - buhbuh - buhbuh - buh.
Same, music was good and going into the cabins iirc and lighting the fireplace had a calming and safe feel to it.
@@alex46801 I always thought the cabin music was actually really good.
I beat tmnt, ninja gaiden and double dragon. But yeah, as an early teen with endless summer to do it. They taught me that I have anger issues and that the nes controllers were nearly indestructible.
This x100. True story my cousin assaulted me with an original NES controller when I beat his Zelda game and overwrote his save game lol.
Imagine if the Apple from nowadays made the original NES and controller. A new controller would cost $25 and throwing it exactly 20 times would have it just automatically fall apart. It would be a money making machine for them lol
Next list needs to have Top Gun. If you could land your fighter on the deck fo the aircraft carrier you are a rare one!
Years ago I recall seeing a video of someone playing Top Gun and he took like 50 attempts to land the plane.
I don't think he ever got past the first mission.
Landing wasn't bad once you knew to look at the speed and altitude meter at the bottom of the screen.
To beat TMNT, all you had to do one you got to the Technodrome's final hallway is to simply walk slowly as the purple flying bot appears walk with it, don't allow it to leave the side of the screen. Let it appear and fly backwards so it can de-spawn itself. It's a slow go but your patience will be rewarded.
I'm collecting many sickle weapon for all turtles in technodrome stages 😅. Before vs technodrome and the last stages. Include vs astronots (The purple flying).
Bionic Commando deserves an honorable mention.
The only truly hard part for me was the end, shooting the cockpit of the helicopter to kill Hitler. Took a few tries to get the timing right. Being able to farm unlimited continues helped a lot.
Blaster Master was the most difficult NES game.
Awesome list! I beat all of these in my younger years and especially want to say thanks for including Solomon's Key. It's one of my favorite NES games of all time that nobody remembers or talks about. Yes, you probably need to look up a guide to find the secret levels and the ending, but it's a small criticism of an otherwise amazing puzzle platformer.
I also want to give an honorable mention to Adventure Island. It's a very long game at about 2 hours and absolutely brutal unless you know the infinite continues cheat. Without infinite continues, it's probably the hardest NES game to beat legit, even harder than Battletoads.
Lmmfao, no, it isn't. Don't let your personal views be so wrong. Nobody who has ever played either will think AI is harder than Battletoads. The main reason people don't finish AI is that it's redundant. Every stage is the same, level after level. Even all the bosses are fought the same way. It's boring halfway through and you just have to push through the boredom of playing the same thing, stage after stage.
At least Battletoads has great variety.
@@ChromeCobra420 As somebody who beat both games legit, no save states, AI is definitely harder than Battletoads, specifically because it takes 2 hours from start to finish with a boring middle, then brutal trial and error by the last two worlds 7 & 8, so when you die, you have to waste an hour and a half getting back to the most challenging levels just to attempt them again.
Battletoads though, the difficulty peaks at levels 3 and 7, so it's not that bad, plus you can find the secret warp to skip level 7 in the snake level, which nullifies it. You can also farm extra lives like crazy in level 2 from hitting the crows over and over, which can carry you all the way through the game. I usually have like 30 - 40 lives after level 2, so no, YOU"RE WRONG AI IS HARDER LMAO 🤪😝
@@ChromeCobra420 no, he's right. Adventure Island is extremely hard. And I say it as a hardcore gamer. Battletoads with unlimited continues would be a cinch, Adventure Island not so.
Batman was hard as nails too.
I remember as a kid Battletoad, used to have nightmares about the bike level..... god it's still there
I’d like to add kid Icarus as the first world is very difficult to pass and if you do the rooms it’s even more tough. Contra I had trained myself to pass not dying once. God bless the spread gun. Master blaster I’d like to add too. The last area was tough minus game genie.
A bonus tip for enjoying the BATTLE TOADS games is for gawd's sake PAUSE the game and just enjoy the pause music.
I did get through the first TMNT game when I was a child, the water level is very, very hard, but the corridor before the end of the game is literally impossible, unless of course, you got a special weapon in one of the first levels and saved it for that last chunk of the game
I usually add Dragon Warrior 2 and Bandit Kings of Ancient China to any list of hard NES games.
Too many viewers focus on the platform genre for hard NES games. The RPG genre was quite brutal back then, and so were Koei's early strategy games. The problem was that while both of these games were huge in Japan, they didnt really translate into huge sales in North America (both genres didnt sell as well as platformers), but they were released here.
The hardest game Ive ever beat straight through on the NES/SNES (it was on both systems in Japan but only on the SNES in the States) was definitely Super Mario Bros Lost Levels or SMB2 Japan.
I played it on the SNES. No warping. Straight through to D-4. Those last 3 worlds from B-1 to D-4 killed me hundreds and hundreds of times and were the absolute limit of my ability on a platformer game. I probably wouldnt be able to do it again. I remember spending an entire day... 14 hours on C-3 alone.
Honorable mentions: Silver Surfer, Adventures of Bayou Billy, basically any LGN game based off a movie franchise, Robowarrior
All the greatest hard nes games. I really enjoyed Friday the 13th AND Nightmare on Elm Street. Every time that music would come on Friday the 13th where he went after the kids was creepy lol and made me panic. As far as TMNT and Battletoads Beat them both as a kid, NOW..no way lol. Thanks for the great vid.
I used to do no death runs of Contra in my teens. Granted it took a few years practice, but it's a pretty linear game so mostly just memorization.
Golgo 13 was another brutal game for nes, as well as Zelda part 2
Batman by Sunsoft was a very hard game.
I beat Contra without the 30 lives code, I've beaten Ninja Gaiden without dying.
I remember playin gold cartridge original zelda as a kid getting the Raft and all, and I remembered that being one of the hardest but favorite games of all time til this day!!
It took me about 8 years of constant memorization to beat battletoads. It was a criminal more then a game.
At one time I was able to no death clear Ninja Gaiden, it took a while to get to that point, but it was great when I finally did it.
You don't know difficult until you've played Milan's Secret Castle. Took me years to beat it, and once I did, I never played it again.
I never beat the wind-ride level in Battletoads. I was able to make it far enough to reach the warp, which was fairly early (I want to say after the third jump) but the level you were warped to was such a difficulty spike that I couldn't get any further than that anyway.
I love your delivery lol! Clear voice and actually quite funny :)
Battletoads almost gives me flash backs of frustrated afternoons eating trying to get past that stupid speeder bike part of the game. I don't think I ever saw the end.
Man I almost choked in laughter…”Dracula..fighting God himself with a stick”
This reminded me of an obscure game that I loved as a kid called Golgo 13. It was based on the longest running manga. It follows a hitman named Golgo 13 through his adventures in dealing with thugs, romance and mission impossible type scenarios. The first game (there was an equally cool sequel) was unique in that you were walking and killing thugs when a hand with a gun would appear and then it would turn into a type of FPS game before there was even such a thing. It was always random and always hard to beat. But it was still really cool. The sequel had sections that had you walking and shooting much like an FPS but they weren’t random like in the first game
I played that as a kid, remember being all confused in terms of what i had to do and where i had to go, just kept playing and playing, I never beat it though.
Apart from being ridiculously challenging, Battletoads can be regarded as one of the most ambitious games of the time.
I saw a band last month called Bit Brigade that played video game music while a guy speedruns a video game.
Their set was Double Dragon and Ninja Gaiden. Pretty rad. That dude made Ninja Gaiden look easy.
NES Jaws and Top Gun should've made this list. Both those games resulted in multiple NES gamepads getting smashed back in the day.
I've done super ghouls & ghosts (the sequel title) on the snes in 6 hours. Don't know if anyone would consider it harder or equally as hard the first one but I'd say so since you have to go through the same crap as the first one.
This is closer to the top 10 most popular NES games than a hardest list.
solomon's key is not popular...and being popular doesn't mean the game wasn't hard.
@@thecunninlynguist True but its closer to a top 10 popular list than a hardest one, was my point. Most of these channels parrot the same "hardest games".
The greatest accomplishment of my gaming life came on a rainy summer day in 1989, when I was 12.
My 10-year-old brother and I had our friends over and put on a show for them, beating Contra in co-op without dying.
By a weird quirk of genetics, there were six different families in our neighborhood that had two boys around the same age, and NES contests were a big part of life when it wasn't nice enough out to go play sports outside. And my little bro and I were the kings of the hill. Good times.
The life lessons were two-pronged. One, nothing encourages practice and improvement like competition and bragging rights. And two, if you're on the same wavelength with someone, there's no goal you can't achieve.
Those contra games were pretty difficult.
I found Ikari Warriors and Iron Towers to be impossible as a child.
There is a little trick for the original Mega Man that makes fighting the bosses very easy. When you fire the weapon that will take out a boss quickly (eg. use Elecman on Iceman) the split second after your shot hits the boss, start pressing the Select button rapidly. This will pause and unpause the game. As long as you keep doing this, you will notice that the boss will flash and his energy will continue dropping until he is dead. Don't worry if you have been hit because this trick has no effect on Mega Man.
wow. did not know that. Does that work on all the NES Megamans?
The Captain Planet and the Planeteers NES Game should be on this List... what you thinkin' Jules... JULES!! 😱
This entire video was literally my childhood. Battletoads abd tmnt water level were absolute hell at that age. Terminator 2 was also extremely hard as a kid . I hated the motorcycle level 😂
Me too. At least with TMNT, you could play the game for a good hour or more before coming to that stupid water level. Battletoads out the speeder bike way at the beginning.
When I was little it took me forever to realize what I was supposed to be doing in the motorcycle level. Unlike Battletoads and TMNT however, I ended up actually finishing the game
Yes, that motorcycle level in T2 was bonkers. The rest of the game wasn't too bad tho.
@@moneymac6457 robocop 2 was another one that invoked fury from deep within .
@@lelandphill4408 I never played the Robocop games
Maximo ghosts to glory was a HUGE pain in the rear to even get a quarter of the way through. You mess up three times on any part, you were sent completely back to the beginning everything reset.
I have beaten a number of those games because back in the day you actually had to get good at fast action games like this. That said as an older person now I do love emulators and the ability to use save states just so I can get back to what games are supposed to be all about, enjoyment.
Great list - played almost all of them, beat only two of them as a kid (Mega Man and Castlevania). I feel like there's one glaring omission here - Gunsmoke. Can't have a list of hardest NES games ever without it.
I feel the same way about The Adventures of Bayou Billy. I swear my hands STILL hurt 35 years later from those driving levels!
Ninja Gaiden was my favorite game as a kid. I played it every day for months. I got to where I could fly through all the levels except for the last one, and I never did beat it. I got to the first final boss quit a few times, but restarting from the beginning of the last level every time he killed me got old real quick.
Yeah, you had to beat the final boss twice. Each with a different power. One of them you had to keep the power from early in the level.
@Duane GIDDINGS there's 3 final bosses, and I never made it past the first one lol. As a kid I didn't know the spin slash did so much damage to the bosses. I like watching speedruns of NES games, and it's insane how Arcus can beat it in under 14 minutes.
Never had a NES, but the sole mentioning of „Solomon‘s Key“ triggered my Game Boy PTSD…
I did complete Ninja Gaiden 2 as a kid. Between 6 and 9, maybe? The last boss was a weird demon with a skull on it. The hardest boss was the Spider Guy you fight at the end. The blood then touches the sword and forms that alien demon. It actually had an impressive storyline.
I think one of the most difficult games was The Immortal.
The original ninja gaiden trilogy is an awesome story. I dare say the cutscenes are more entertaining than the actual game
Agree with the list I've beaten these games in my teenage years but battletoads not until my mid 20s hard games but good memories 😊
That is the most accurate description of Solomon's Key ever.
I remember playing a lot of these games. I haven't thought about those days in a long time! The hours I must have spent in front of the TV. I never got a console after the first NES console, so didn't game much after that except for a little PC gaming.
Loved Mega Man and Ninja Gaiden. Capcom and Konami made so many of the best NES games
Came to make sure Battletoads was number 1 ... Was not disappointed ... lol
I think there could could be a few others. Silver surfer, Gauntlet, Dragon Power, and Blaster Master
It's funny that most of these games were less than an hour long, so they just made them impossible to complete to extend the playtime and make your money's worth
Friday the 13th was AMAZING as a kid,and TERRIFYING 😨
I beat Contra, no 30x code, after being bored with using the code constantly. Made me feel great to do it as is.
Same here and i managed to beat the game without dying once and that surprised me.
I came for the tmnt entry.
I finally beat the dam level 30 years later
back then you could call the nintendo assist line for help. I had to do it to get past the last boss of each of the Ninja Gaiden games but it did help and to this day I still feel good I was able to beat them. Definitely tough games. Nowadays I'm having a tough time getting past the Crash Bandicoot remakes. good stuff!
This list is 100% accurate, but let's not forget how hard The Immortal was. The first level of that game still gives me rage lol
I always loved the death animation where the wizard would tap a goblin's head with his wand, and then the head would swell up and explode lmao.
TMNT was tough, but my 14 year old self was able to beat it. Took a LONG time, but Summers here are hot and winters are freezing cold. But I never did finish NG. It was cost me too much in new controllers.
I would assert that Super C was much harder than the original Contra. In the first game you simply needed to get the right weapon combo and hang on tight. Getting rapid fire spread gun could reduce the games difficulty by 30-45% in some levels.
In Super C weapon advantages could barely mitigate certain challenging areas
super c def harder
Nice memories here . Ghost N Goblins was the first game I ever owned for the NES outside of the pack in super Mario/ duck hunt . Played the crap out of it and did eventually beat it. Played it again a few years ago and couldn’t make it past the 2nd stage lol.
My dad and I were a great duo in Contra! But, we always used the 30 lived code.
And I loved Double Dragon 3!
These were pretty hard games, yeah. I remember a lesser known title, Legacy of the Wizard, being one that just baffled us and was extremely difficult. But that was every title. Even the original Metroid had bottomless, game ending pits and was a screen scroller that just went on. Plus, the inability to save meant you left the Nintendo on for days or weeks on end, hoping your parents didn't bump it when coming in to clean up, leaving you in tears when you came home and saw the dreaded blinking red light. Ahhh, memories.
Of all the games I’ve finished, Castlevania 3 and Mike Tyson’s Punch Out gave me the hardest time. Other NES games I consider the hardest are:
Adventures Of Bayou Billy
Zelda 2 The Adventure Of Link
Super Mario Bros The Lost Levels from Japan
Ninja Gaiden 3 The Ancient Ship Of Doom
Kid Icarus
I beat Kid Icarus. I don't remember it being all that hard. I actually really liked that game.
My friend had Kid Icarus (or kid icky as I called it for short). He had beaten it.
Wasn't Mario The lost levels on Snes? I remember playing it with Nintendo Power open. And the commentary saying "If you're pulling out your hair by the 4th level, it's normal to do so."
I beat all the Ninja Gaiden, Contra, and Castlevania games as a kid, but one game, the Adventures of Buoy Billy was tougher than all of them, and I never did beat, but I did make it to the final boss.
Played all of these. Did not beat Solomon's Key or Friday the 13th. After beating Ghosts 'N Goblins the first time and having to start over, I yelled at the tv and chucked my controller at it, and flipped off the tv, decided that i beat it fair and square gd it, and i never played it again with any degree of dedication. I did beat all these other ones, however, and yes i was a child, but it certainly did take a heck of a long time, and i basically didnt do amy homework, and spent most of my summer days on it, too, for a few years there. Wow, this brings back memories. I'm gonna go find an emulator now.
Worse thing in Contra is when your teammate jumps up too fast and you fall off the screen.
Great vid and I totally beat TMNT as I kid. But I'm a weirdo and try random things like beating link to the past without dying once. When that's the only game you have at the time, you dissect it, while trying not to curse out loud.
Ok... Alright... #4 Friday the 13th
I know it's considered a bad game...but...
It has a nostalgia place in my heart. I've also managed to beat it. I don't have a problem playing it.
Link: "CALL ME ZELDA ONE MORE MUTHAF--KIN' TIME!!!"
Let me think....I beat Contra without the code and no continues, Ninja Gaiden with a few continues. The rest of the games I couldn't
There was also a attempt of making of a Battletoads cartoon show, or even a full movie, it was painful to see, only two episodes were ever completed, but nobody wanted them, they're now more a curiosity than anything else, or just a torturer....
That Solomons key looked like a headache. I played the other games and yes I threw my controller at the TV a couple times as a youngin 😅😂
These lists are usually exclusively platformers, but I feel like some shooters like Gradius, and RPGs like the Wizardry and Ultima games deserve mentioning.
Thanks for using some some super c footage for the regular contra entry
Friday the 13th was the only one I beat from this list. It was one of my favorite NES games along with Legend of Zelda, GI Joe The Atlantis Factor and Crystalis.
How is Legend of the Wizard not in this list? It required the booklet in order to know how to use the characters, and required you to change characters and do specific tasks that werent told to you.
Jules you are a official g for putting contra an double dragon in the list. I used to play contra on the arcade, I swear the amount of 10ps I put into that game was mad 😂
I loved Solomon's Key! Never thought it was that hard...
I beat the Ninja Gaidens. VERY rewarding. My greatest achievement was when I rented TMNT for a week, and I played my butt off during that week. I managed to beat it with about an hour left before I had to return it. My greatest failure was Battletoads. I could not get past the cycle stage. Either I missed some trick or it's just impossible. One day I saw the map of it in Nintendo Power and I had only gotten halfway through. The first game (one of only 3) I had to give up on. It was a dark day. I also made an effort to beat Contra with the standard lives, but couldn't quite pull it off. Good times.
Tapping the "A" button (without a turbo paddle or the Game Genie) is almost impossible to get up the stairs in the 1988 NES Game GHOSTBUSTERS. Meanwhile, if you make it to the top, Gozer, her ghosts and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man will go leaps and bounds trying to kill you. My 9 year old nephew plays my original Nintendo and he doesn't understand why the games were so difficult to beat. Especially the stairs in GHOSTBUSTERS.
Battletoads on the NES also has a glitch on the next to last level that prevents the 2nd player from using the controls, and they die.
What makes the Nes games Hard to beat. Is not the Infinite Continues through trial and errors.....
Is can you beat the game in your first play through without dying a single time.
That still holds and haunts players to this day.
Going through this list. I played and finished the japanese version of Contra (with Konami Code of course... but the Famicom version was much harder than the NES version. The enemies just took on sooooo many hits before they died), Solomon's Key (although I didnt get the best ending), and Battletoads (using a hack to increase my lives to around 10), and Double Dragon 3 Famicom version, using the level warp cheat.
Good list! If y'all do a follow up, may I suggest Arkista's Ring or Solstice...?
Solstice was one of my favorites.
@@robwhelehan. Nice. I never got very far. Couldn't, quite, wrap my head around it.
Batman the NES game made me tear my hair out a few times as a kid, although eventually i did get to the end. I never finished Legacy of the Wizard, it was just impossible for me to get through as a kid. You needed to make a map as you went along and then backtrack with the appropriate character.
Ninja Gaiden almost ruined my childhood.
Thankfully, I was able to turn to drugs.
I did beat TMNT on NES when I was a kid. Picked it up on a retro console recently, didn’t get far before I said, “this is much harder then I remember”. Same with contra and GnG. Battletoads was a nightmare. Never did get through that one.
7:00 F13th; Tyler from GGG covered it and explains the game pretty well
Thanks for that spot at the end too.
Double dragon 3 is so frustrating. I loved 1&2 and was REALLY looking forward to part 3. I can barely fight my way out of the first room. Always get a game over on the first street of the first stage. Makes no sense to me.
8 eyes is one of the hardest games I ever played on the NES,but no one ever talk about it.
Holy Diver is also really tough. The difference is too many enemies vs a single enemy being a chore to fight. 8 Eyes gets frustrating really quick.