The Hardest Game You Ever Played

[Renegade 0]

Oh fuck if that's the spider-man game I had then I agree 100%. It took me forever just to get to Electro and beat him, and I never did figure out how to get that fucking key.

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I didn't even manage to get to electro, the lighting bolt of doom would kill me before I could reach a higher platform. Also in order to regain health per stage you had to eat into the time limit. That game was a total bitch

[Jingus 0]

Oh yeah, this is a fun topic.

 

Pretty much any Castlevania game that isn't immedietly followed by the number II is a shoe-in. I literally refused to believe anyone who claims they beat Dracula without a Game Genie in the first one, because his second form is so ridiculously hard that I don't see how it's possible. You have to whip him 64 times or the equivalent with other weapons, and meanwhile you only can take four hits before dying. And this is AFTER you fight the hard-as-fuck first form.

 

Terminator 2: Judgement Day is a common one, I don't know of anyone who got past the truck stage.

 

The Dune games are hard, but they're doable, you just have to build a good infrastructure and have good timing. Oh, and memorize EXACTLY what the different vehicles and weapons can do.

 

Ghosts & Goblins. Ah, we meet again, my arch-nemesis. Thanks to the level select code, you could at least get a glimpse of what the entire game looked like (or the beginning of the levels, anyway). This is one of those games where I wonder if the programmers even played it. Did they test it themselves? Did they see how got-danged impossible this game was? Especially for little kids? Why did they release the game with such unresponsive controlling ability? If your little guy could just jump with more precision, it would've solved a shitload of problems. (The greatest irony being that the last boss is a complete pussy, you don't need the cross at all, that's just a myth.)

 

Lots of fighting games are just unfair. SNK is a repeat offender, their various Neo-Geo games are all so goddamn difficult that it makes you wonder if they were trying to get you to smash that incredibly expensive machine, just so you'd buy another one.

 

Grand Theft Auto. Any of 'em. I think it would be easier to go outside my house right now, carjack the neighbor's SUV, and build my own crime empire than it would be to win any of these games without the cheat codes.

 

Battletoads: fuck you. What kind of assholes make one of the coolest games ever, with all kinds of different things you can do, and then make it SO FUCKING HARD THAT EVEN I, THE NERDIEST OF NERDS, CAN'T WIN THE FUCKING GAME EVEN WITH A LEVEL SELECT CODE, AN NES MAX, AND A GAME GENIE?!?

 

(Off-topic: anyone else remember the NES Max? That was quite possibly the single best controller ever designed by human beings.)

 

Any game with the name "Ninja Gaiden" on it should put up a red flag. I was surprised at all the pussies who whined about how hard the new X-Box version was. THA FUCK DID YOU EXPECT?! These are the same pricks who designed the original, where after your five millionth try at the fifth level to make that oh-so-perfect jump, outta nowhere some damn bird hits you and knocks you into a pit. Were you expecting mercy?

 

Blaster Master: you run around for about three years or so collecting various powerups, just so you could go fight the boss and die.

 

Mike Tyson's Punchout: I think I can count on one hand the number of times I beat Tyson. WITH a game genie.

 

Spiderman & X-Men: Arcade's Revenge. Thank you, Satan. Why yes, I would LOVE to be Wolverine and chop down every single anvil and cut through every fucking wall and STILL get tossed by Juggernaut into the giant ball pit and die. Was that supposed to be a metaphor, inevitably getting thrown to our doom in a giant ball pit?

 

And I must single out Chakan: The Forever Man for the last. Not just because the game's hard. Not because it devoured Allah knows how many innocent controllers at the hands of enraged children. But because of it's goddamn worthless "ending". Shit, at least if you somehow broke all known laws of probability and won Castlevania, they gave you a cool credits sequence. But nooooo, not Chakan! I don't even know if I want to write down this so-called "finale" that some fucking social retard of a Japanese game developer cursed us all with. In fact, I won't. It's THAT fucking stupid.

 

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EDIT: oh, I forgot the hardest game of all time: Rolling Thunder, for the NES. If you can look me in the eye and say that you have beaten this game, then I will kill you, for you are the Antichrist, and the last boss of Rolling Thunder's defeat is the trigger for the horn of Gabriel and thus Armageddon shall reighn down on us.

[Guest Askewniverse]

Battletoads (NES) - I still can't beat the fucking speed bike stage. That level is just evil.

 

Kid Chameleon (Genesis) - the game never seemed to end. How the hell could the makers expect someone to finish the entire game in a single sitting?

 

Ghouls & Ghosts/Ghosts & Goblins - I don't think I ever got past the second stage.

 

Double Dragon 3 (NES) - one damn life to finish the game? That's not cool. Make one small mistake in the first stage or two, and you could end up falling into a pit. To quote one of my favorite movies, "Game over, man!"

 

 

Pretty much any Castlevania game that isn't immedietly followed by the number II is a shoe-in.  I literally refused to believe anyone who claims they beat Dracula without a Game Genie in the first one, because his second form is so ridiculously hard that I don't see how it's possible.  You have to whip him 64 times or the equivalent with other weapons, and meanwhile you only can take four hits before dying.  And this is AFTER you fight the hard-as-fuck first form.

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I just played Castlevania (emulator, but without any form of cheating) and I didn't think Dracula's second form was as hard as you made it out to be. All I had to do was throw the Cross and whip him, then walk under him if he jumped. I thought the first form was harder.

[MrRant 0]

Odd, I never had that many problems with Blaster Master.

 

However... fuck you Xevious, even though you are fun. Fuck you.

[Guest BrokenWings]

I haven't played Echo The Dolphin in over a decade, but that game was pretty frustrating as a kid.

 

See also: The Boy And His Blob. Or something like that. For Gameboy.

[MrRant 0]

A Boy and His Blob is relatively easy if you got the right licorice.

 

One of my favorite games. Though the blob could be a moron sometimes and fuck you over by running off a cliff when you stopped.

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And I must single out Chakan: The Forever Man for the last.  Not just because the game's hard.  Not because it devoured Allah knows how many innocent controllers at the hands of enraged children.  But because of it's goddamn worthless "ending".  Shit, at least if you somehow broke all known laws of probability and won Castlevania, they gave you a cool credits sequence.  But nooooo, not Chakan!  I don't even know if I want to write down this so-called "finale" that some fucking social retard of a Japanese game developer cursed us all with.  In fact, I won't.  It's THAT fucking stupid.

 

No..., it’s a great fucking ending that perfectly complimented the tone of the game. It’s also one ending you're not going to appreciate unless you've beaten the game yourself. There was a half second of anger upon completion that quickly turned into laughter and appreciation that you felt the ending almost as much as Chakan would have. To dismiss the ending for it not being happy makes me glad there's an ignore function, because you just don't get it.

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On a more pleasant note, RC Pro Am was a bitch to beat.

EDIT: The Dracula in Simon's quest is too damn easy, the only one easier was SotN's when you used the shield rod trick.

 

RE-EDIT: To further sum it up, Jingus just sucked and lacked skillz.

[Kahran Ramsus 0]

Super Return of the Jedi

 

Super Empire Strikes Back is easily the most difficult of the series. The final duel against Vader at the highest difficulty is extremely difficult. The only hard part in ROTJ was the last level where you have to escape from the Death Star in the Millenium Falcon. One screw up on higher levels and you'll be engulfed in flames.

 

Pretty much any Castlevania game that isn't immedietly followed by the number II is a shoe-in. I literally refused to believe anyone who claims they beat Dracula without a Game Genie in the first one, because his second form is so ridiculously hard that I don't see how it's possible. You have to whip him 64 times or the equivalent with other weapons, and meanwhile you only can take four hits before dying. And this is AFTER you fight the hard-as-fuck first form.

 

III & IV are no problem, especially III. Once you got Alucard it was a piece of cake and Dracula wasn't too difficult at all.

 

Another one I had a lot of problems with was X-COM: UFO Defense. I got started with the series on the second game which was moderately difficult, but when I went back and played the first I never got anywhere. My team would get slaughtered practically right when they stepped out of the ship.

[Jingus 0]

I just played Castlevania (emulator, but without any form of cheating) and I didn't think Dracula's second form was as hard as you made it out to be. All I had to do was throw the Cross and whip him, then walk under him if he jumped. I thought the first form was harder.

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What do you mean, "walk under him"? The second form was so big it took up half the screen. He jumped on me. I died. Game over.

 

Odd, I never had that many problems with Blaster Master.

 

Did you ever actually win the damn thing? Finding all those power-ups for your blaster is a bitch and a half.

 

No..., it’s a great fucking ending that perfectly complimented the tone of the game. It’s also one ending you're not going to appreciate unless you've beaten the game yourself. There was a half second of anger upon completion that quickly turned into laughter and appreciation that you felt the ending almost as much as Chakan would have. To dismiss the ending for it not being happy makes me glad there's an ignore function, because you just don't get it.

 

Well, I'm glad you liked it. But how does being unsatisfied with a short, pointless, unhappy ending to a ridiculously hard game equal "just don't get it"?

 

EDIT: The Dracula in Simon's quest is too damn easy, the only one easier was SotN's when you used the shield rod trick.

The only thing I agree with you. Golden Dagger, goodbye.

 

RE-EDIT: To further sum it up, Jingus just sucked and lacked skillz.

Now you're just being mean. Hell, I once got through Contra without losing a single life.

 

III & IV are no problem, especially III. Once you got Alucard it was a piece of cake and Dracula wasn't too difficult at all.

 

How so? Alucard's offense was laughably weak, and the triple-form Dracula was pretty damn hard. Especially since, unlike the others in the series, if you died it spit you WAY back in the level.

[AndrewTS 0]

Actually Jingus, the X-Box Ninja Gaiden isn't made by the "same people" as the original Ninja Gaidens. It was more of a tribute. Tecmo published both, but the teams were totally different. I don't think the X-Box version was really any easier than the older games (and the original was the most infamously hard one, the others and certainly Shadow on Game Boy weren't quite so hard).

 

And none of the recent Draculas have been hard. SotN one with Shield rod? My ass. Galamoth is the hardest boss in that game. Circle? Harder by not really that hard. Harmony? He's not quite fully resurrected--cake. Aria's...um...Dracula-like boss is pretty easy to beat without getting hit even once. Pitiful. He's not the final baddie, though. Heck, the N64 versions of Drac are the most challenging ones in a while. Bloodlines wasn't a terribly hard game, especially with Lacarde (sp?), who kicked ass. The warping room in IV was annoying as hell, but the rest of the game wasn't quite so bad.

 

I'd love to contribute more 8-bit suggestions, but they'd be limited by stuff I emulated, since I was a child of the 16-bit era. So I wasn't really weaned on insanely-difficult 8-bit fare like Battletoads. Then again, I've known a couple of people who swear to me that they've manhandled that game as youths, and now they've lost most of their skillz. So go fig.

 

Kid Chameleon didn't really seem very hard, despite its rep. I think I got through level 5 or so without any prior experience, any walkthroughs/hints, and despite playing it on a lousy 1/4 of my computer monitor. If it weren't for the fact I got bored of it quickly, I might have gone further in later playthroughs.

[Special K 0]

Bayou fuckin Billy. I could never beat the first level.

The Ghouls and Ghosts series

Blazing Star and the Metal Slugs are difficult to gauge because they're quarter munchers, but the later missions the screen is a blizzard of bullets.

Cybernoid on Nintendo, bad game, could beat the first level that's it/

Battletoads driving levels. Fuck those were hard.

[MrRant 0]

8 Eyes also fucked me over multiple times.

[Guest Askewniverse]

I just played Castlevania (emulator, but without any form of cheating) and I didn't think Dracula's second form was as hard as you made it out to be. All I had to do was throw the Cross and whip him, then walk under him if he jumped. I thought the first form was harder.

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What do you mean, "walk under him"? The second form was so big it took up half the screen. He jumped on me. I died. Game over.

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Dracula had a high jump and a low jump. Unless you really, really sucked, it was easy to walk under him during a high jump. Maybe I lucked out, but Dracula did more high jumps than low jumps.

 

I think you might have slightly exaggerated his height. The second form wasn't that big.

[spman 0]

Blaster Master is one that I keep coming back to, I am going to beat it at least one before I die.

 

For me, the hardest game of all time was always the first TMNT on NES. IF (and that's a big IF) you actually are able to make it past Mecha Turtle, then Shredder just totally fucks you up. That game blew chunks regardless.

[Red Baron 0]

I don't know what you guys are talking about but I found Spiderman pretty easy.

 

Now the Tick....man it wasn't that hard, but long and tedious and near impossible coming towards the end.

[Jingus 0]

Dracula had a high jump and a low jump. Unless you really, really sucked, it was easy to walk under him during a high jump. Maybe I lucked out, but Dracula did more high jumps than low jumps.

 

I think you might have slightly exaggerated his height. The second form wasn't that big.

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You did luck out. The few times I ever beat his first form, the second form just pounced right onto me, where there was no possible way I could've avoided it. The only way I ever killed it was with Game Genie codes that powered up my weapons, so I kept tossing holy water onto it (which briefly paralyzes it) til it died.

 

For me, the hardest game of all time was always the first TMNT on NES. IF (and that's a big IF) you actually are able to make it past Mecha Turtle, then Shredder just totally fucks you up. That game blew chunks regardless.

 

Oh yeah, that's another one. When your game's second stage is too hard for most people to get past (the ridiculously tricky swimming bullshit where you're dodging deadly seaweed, that's about as "fun" and hard as a game of Operation!) you really need to think about going back to the drawing board.

 

I don't know what you guys are talking about but I found Spiderman pretty easy.

 

Not just Spiderman, a very specific SNES game called "Spiderman & X-Men: Arcade's Revenge" which let you play as all your favorite superheroes, and then put them all in situations where you couldn't use ANY of their powers. And was bloody fucking impossible to beat.

[Aero 0]

For me, the hardest game of all time was always the first TMNT on NES. IF (and that's a big IF) you actually are able to make it past Mecha Turtle, then Shredder just totally fucks you up. That game blew chunks regardless.

 

Oh yeah, that's another one. When your game's second stage is too hard for most people to get past (the ridiculously tricky swimming bullshit where you're dodging deadly seaweed, that's about as "fun" and hard as a game of Operation!) you really need to think about going back to the drawing board.

 

The water level wasn't THAT hard. You just had to be extra careful. I was able to get by it usually with no problem, but the seaweed in that one part could be really annoying at times. After you rescue Splinter is where the game starts getting difficult, I think.

[Ed Wood Caulfield 0]

Right now, I'm playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and fuck, it's been hard. Everytime I finish a hard mission, I think the next one will be easy. Instead, the next mission is harder than the last. It's going to take me forever to finish this game.

 

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City wasn't so easy either. I've had the game since December 2002, and I'm only up to the mission where you have to kill the Haitians which is a pain in the ass. Infact, I haven't played it since December 2003. I should go back to that game someday.

 

Sonic Heroes was the hardest Sonic game I've ever played. Ever. Sonic Adventure comes close only for the God awful and very irritating Big The Cat levels. I have no idea how many hours I spent trying to find the third chaos emerald. I was *this* close to putting the game on the shelf, but, somehow, I was able to find the third emerald, and soon I won the game. The game was hard, but those two weeks back in March-April 2004 when I played the game was great.

 

I've never finished Super Mario Brothers 3.

 

It took me a year and a half to finish Super Mario World, although I had some help from my aunt. Infact, she played the game more than I did. She was the one who defeated Bowser, too.

 

Donkey Kong Country was another game that took me a year and a half to finish, although when I played it again back in the fall of 1998, it took me 2 months.

 

Super Punch Out was SO hard. The first three boxers were easy, but it got hard once I fought Super Macho Man. After about 15 tries, I was able to beat him, but then I had to face that skinny guy who did ballet. I could never beat him. His kicks were too hard for me to block. After trying for several days, I just said "Fuck it." I put the game on the shelf and haven't played it since. Even if I wanted to play it, I can't anyway, since I didn't take my Super Nintendo when I moved to Miami, so my Super Nintendo and Super Punch Out are now gone forever.

[Black Lushus 0]

Right now, I'm playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and fuck, it's been hard. Everytime I finish a hard mission, I think the next one will be easy. Instead, the next mission is harder than the last. It's going to take me forever to finish this game.

 

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have you bought the airfield yet? this happens once you've completed the San Fierro missions...You think the game is hard NOW? ohhhhhh man...

[Sandman9000 0]

Yeah,

flight school

is a huge pain in the ass in San Andreas.

 

Though

if you accept that the game wants you to turn with the rudders and not the joystick, despite every single instinct telling you otherwise

, it becomes manageable. I beat it in a night, maybe about four-five hours.

[Guest Coffey]

Battletoads, Ghosts N' Goblins, & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[Guest wildpegasus]

Shameless Bragging mode on:

 

 

I've beaten TMNT, Battletoads at least 12 times, Ninja Gaiden at least 20 times, Conta, Contra II, Contra III and the notoriusly hard 2D Contra on the PS2 without any extra men on every difficultly level, Bayou Billy, Double Dragon III and Blaster Master among others.

 

 

Bragging mode off

[Jericholic82 0]

TMNT was hard for me I could get past the swiming level but always got stuck at on epart not too long after that. I had it for a few years and never got past that, on the other hand TMNT II ruled and was hard at times but at least beatable and you felt a real sense of accomplishment when you beat it. I agree on GTA games some misions are insanely hard that youmust use cheats. Hell now in SA, I still havent beta it after getting i on the relase day in october (well alot has to do with me stopping play for weeks at a time due to being too busy, but most of the missions are impossible without cheats, hell I cant count howm many times I had to use the 100 percent health and armor cheat. and numerous times in gta 3, vc, and sa when I had to use the blow up all cars cheat. actually GTA 3 probably had the most difficult missions, especially the one where you hav to blow up all the spank stands in all 3 islands in a span of only 10 minutes. That took me forever to beat.

[chaosrage 0]

Shameless Bragging mode on:

 

 

I've beaten TMNT (The seaweed level is easy), Battletoads at least 12 times, Ninja Gaiden at least 20 times, Conta, Contra II, Contra III and the notoriusly hard 2D Contra on the PS2 without any extra men on every difficultly level, Bayou Billy, Double Dragon III and Blaster Master among others.

 

 

Bragging mode off

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Add Adventure Island, Milon's Secret Castle, Startropics, and Ghosts N Goblins to the list and then I'll be impressed.

[Guest Fook]

I've never finished Super Mario Brothers 3.

 

It took me a year and a half to finish Super Mario World, although I had some help from my aunt. Infact, she played the game more than I did. She was the one who defeated Bowser, too.

 

Super Punch Out was SO hard. The first three boxers were easy, but it got hard once I fought Super Macho Man. After about 15 tries, I was able to beat him, but then I had to face that skinny guy who did ballet. I could never beat him. His kicks were too hard for me to block. After trying for several days, I just said "Fuck it." I put the game on the shelf and haven't played it since. Even if I wanted to play it, I can't anyway, since I didn't take my Super Nintendo when I moved to Miami, so my Super Nintendo and Super Punch Out are now gone forever.

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Mario 3 is probably the easiest Mario game. And with the easy warping to world 8 and unlimited continues there's no reason to not be able to beat this.

 

Mario World is pretty easy too. There were some annoying parts and tricky jumps, but overall it wasn't hard. And the final Bowser is a joke.

 

Super Punch Out was a walk in the park compared to the original. I could beat every opponent in under a minute.

 

 

As for hard games, aside from the ones already mentioned (Battletoads, TMNT, etc), I always found the original Metroid hard due to having no map and all the rooms looking similar. I can beat it now pretty handily, but I was never able to as a kid. In the same vein, Punch Out was hard when I was younger (I could never beat Soda Popinski), but I play it now and crush everyone, Tyson included.

[Guest Askewniverse]

The Punisher (NES) - I think I made it to Kingpin's stage once. I managed to knock off maybe 1/10th of his health before he killed me.

[Matt Young 0]

I didn't find Battletoads to be too hard. I beat it when I was very young. Same with Blaster Master. However, I was hardcore back then. If I tried playing these days, I'd likely get my ass kicked.

 

Even back then, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game was a bitch, and I never recall beating it. I finished the 3 sequels, though.

 

Although I enjoyed the games immensely, I cannot recall ever finishing Contra or Super C without the Konami code.

[Guest wildpegasus]

Shameless Bragging mode on:

 

 

I've beaten TMNT (The seaweed level is easy), Battletoads at least 12 times, Ninja Gaiden at least 20 times, Conta, Contra II, Contra III and the notoriusly hard 2D Contra on the PS2 without any extra men on every difficultly level, Bayou Billy, Double Dragon III and Blaster Master among others.

 

 

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Add Adventure Island, Milon's Secret Castle, Startropics, and Ghosts N Goblins to the list and then I'll be impressed.

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Braggin Mode On

 

 

I've beaten Startropics several times after obtaining the cartridge for winning a Super Mario Bros 3 tourney.

 

I have no idea what Milon's Secret Castle is

 

I know I only played 1 game of the Adventure Island series.

 

Played Super Ghouls'n'Ghosts but not Ghosts N Goblins

 

 

Beaten Resident Evil Remake on Gamecube in invisible mode under the required time limit

 

Did everything you could on Resident Evil II

 

Beaten Castlevania III which was one of my toughest games ever

 

Eh, may as well write down everything I can remember --

 

Have beaten Alladin NES or SNES, American Gladiators NES, Batman NES, Batman Returns?, Batman Return of the Joker NES, Battletoads and Double Dragon NES, Double Dragon II NES, Ducktales NES, Bionic Commando NES, Happily Ever After?, Kabuki Quantam Fighter NES, Zelda and Zelda II NES, Several Mega Mans -- there is one Mega Man game I got to the end of but didn't beat and I'm not sure which one it is anymore, Ninja Gaiden I II and III NES, Rad Racer and I think Rad Racer II NES, Startropics NES, Mario I II and III NES plus the Lost Levels Japanese game, All the TMNT games on the NES, WCW Wrestling (I think), Actraiser SNES, Aero the Acrobat SNES, some Batman game on the SNES, Super Castlevania IV, Donkey Kong Country I II and III, the first Double Dragon that came out on the SNES, Final Fight SNES, Earthworm Jim I think, One of the Fatal Fury games, JOe and Mac?, Legend of the Mystical Ninja SNES, Super Mario World SNES, Super Mario Yoshi's Island, Super Smash TV SNES, SUper PUnchout SNES, Starfox 64, Mario 64, Zelda 64, Mystical Ninja 64, Zelda OOT 64, Mario Kart 64 and Super Mario Kart SNES, Castlevania Sympthony of the Night, Kingdom Hearts with Sepiroth beaten on Playstation, Metal Gear Solid I and II pLaystation, Devil May Cry on Dante Must Die mode, Every Resident Evil except the prequel and IV on the Gamecube, Onimusha Playstation 2, Maximum Carnage SNES

 

 

That's the gist of it. There are some games I'm not sure of if I beat or not and others I've forgotten. I never put down any RPG games because a lot of times it's up to you on how difficult they are. I didn't put down any shooters either because I don't know which ones I beat and which ones I didn't. They are probably the most difficult games overall.

 

 

Bad Dudes is a game I never beat back in the day and it'd be interesting to give that one a try today to see how difficult it is. I know it was hard but I wasn't quite in my prime yet when I was playing it.

 

Plok is another hard game. I never beat it because I got frustrated at it for its cuteness and its bugs which would have you get stuck in a wall or some other nonsense ruining hours of work.

[tekcop 0]

I still haven't beat the third level on Ghosts 'n Goblins.

 

Would that be the level with that tattoo guys? They have litte tattoo hearts on their arms? If you think that level is hard, when I was little I got towards the end....SO VERY FREAKING HARD! You know those blue haired flying goblins that are a boss in one of the beginning levels? They are all over the place!

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Stop scaring me. Seriously. I've always thought I'd get around to beating it, but you're not helping me.

 

Battletoads: fuck you. What kind of assholes make one of the coolest games ever, with all kinds of different things you can do, and then make it SO FUCKING HARD THAT EVEN I, THE NERDIEST OF NERDS, CAN'T WIN THE FUCKING GAME EVEN WITH A LEVEL SELECT CODE, AN NES MAX, AND A GAME GENIE?!?

Come on, Jingus, it's not that bad. I've beat that game a couple of times.