Battletoads. If I ever meet anyone responsible for the creation of that game I will gladly kick him between the legs.
wow the exact game that came to mind when i saw this thread. defintely one of the hardest games ever. my brother is an expert gamer and he couildnt even get past this 1 part using save states. but he has definitely passed the hoverbike level, but only because he used save states.
This gets frustrating so I always turn it off.
my brother has beat this game but I have definitley not. Fuck that snowspeeder level was difficult to get the cables around the ATATs. so much easeir when shadows came out for N64!!!
this one was hell to beat
Is this the "Hard" mode? I remember the last boss being link's shadow. I have defintiley beaten this game within the past 2 years and my brother and I beat this when he was like 12. it is actually a much easier game than the first zelda if you ask me, but thats just because its so much harder to knwo where you are supposed to be going in zelda 1.
As far as Megaman goes, the first Megaman X game's last boss was ridiculous, other than that, I disagree. Mike Tyson's punchout is impossible. My brother fixed my old NES, I've been playing Battletoads and have not managed to beat level 3 with the fucking bike.
mega man X 1 was the easiest one they only got harder from there on out. the actual mike tyson boss would be pretty hard to beat without save states, but I have beaten it using them. you jsut have to learn the patterns, the 2nd puinchout for SNES was pretty difficult once you got to the end too but not as random as the OG one
that being said i dont think there has ever been a more difficult game released than Castle of Shikigami III for wii
completely fucking ridiculous
another tough one is ninja gaiden 1. It only gets hard once you get to the last area. You make it all the way to the last boss and then if you die it sets you back sooo fucking far. and there is this one part with Boba Fett's and they FUCK YOU UP.
metroid 1 is pretty fucking difficult, espeically since I beat that game in 93/94 before I had internet. I tried playing it again and it is so confusing, I would NEVER have the patience to play through that game again. beating that game was definitely one of the highlights of my gaming career.
also beating street fighter 3 on the hardest difficulty is pretty damn hard, but only the last boss. you have to dedicate years to be able to beat somethign like that, at first i didnt want to consider it but now i realize it is like the wallenburg of street fighter games, for someone who hasnt trained for years on that game, it wuold be frustrating as fuck, unattainable. the dude heals himself when he is almost dead half the time.
METAL GEAR 1
that game has got to be impossible. just because again you have no idea where you are supposedd to be going (the horrible translation doesnt help) and also the enemies are just sooo fucking tough. beat with save states and walkthrough and even that was fucked.
lemmings, once you get far in that, you have got to be pretty fucking smart to be able to solve them shits.
CONTRA is a very difficult game, you pretty much have to memorize the entire game to beat it
paper boy that game was fucking hard and it sucked!