Several of the games above (Ninja Gaiden, Ghouls and Ghost, etc). On the RPG side, Wizardry IV. Sadly, I'm coming to the point where those games are getting harder to beat each year, as my reflexes aren't where they were even 10 years ago, let alone 20+...

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Really?? What is hanging you up in Super Mario 3? I always thought that one was pretty easy. If I warp I can beat it in half an hour.

I suck at platformers, and didn't have anyone telling me where the whistles are.
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Dude, just watch "The Wizard". It even came out before the game, I knew where the whistle was before I even played it.

I think the Angry Video Game Nerd, has an episode about this:
http://cinemassacre....-ninja-turtles/

LOL that's great. That jump thats near the roof is about the time I go, "This game sucks" and turn it off.

I could never get past the sarcophagus in Hellfire in the arcade. Twenty years on I got it up and running on MAME and still can't do it! Frustrating!

The TMNT game also comes to mind. I thought I just sucked at it as a kid, never tried it as an adult.

For me, Super Mario Bros. was very tough, even as an adult. World 8-3 was a nightmare with the Hammer Bros. That took me a while to beat.

But the real kicker I'd say are the Ecco the Dolphin games. Now those were some impossible games for me as a kid. I did manage to beat both of the Genesis games as an adult, but boy were there some frustrating moments to be had. I guess I should have taken it as a bad sign when they give you infinite lives by default.

Super Ghouls and Ghousts isnt hard, is inhuman...


Batman e Robin, the Riddler boss is insane, you have to run at max without fails because the floor is falling at the same speed as you, than a fucking chess piece falls at your face, the hell you supposed to do at that time? Dx never beated the muthabeat..and it got so much to get there(passwords FTW)


A very well balanced game is The King of Dragons, it have a snes version but the original is for Arcade(MAME)..I remember beating the game in 2 players mode with my cousin, we beat it only once, I got the wizard, he got the elf, *_* nostalgic

The TMNT game also comes to mind. I thought I just sucked at it as a kid, never tried it as an adult.

For me, Super Mario Bros. was very tough, even as an adult. World 8-3 was a nightmare with the Hammer Bros. That took me a while to beat.

But the real kicker I'd say are the Ecco the Dolphin games. Now those were some impossible games for me as a kid. I did manage to beat both of the Genesis games as an adult, but boy were there some frustrating moments to be had. I guess I should have taken it as a bad sign when they give you infinite lives by default.

Oh man Ecco the Dolphin.

Ok here comes the embarassing part of my life, and I am glad that I didn't get my gamer card taken from me. After I tell this story, some of you may never look at me the same way again.

There I was age 17, I had my Sega, and I just bought Ecco the Dolphin from Gamestop for 4$! Mind you Ecco has been out for some time as the current generation when I was 17 was Xbox just launching.

I get the game mainly because I was on a wierd kick of ocean games and started with DreamCast's Ecco the Dolphin, beat it and wanted to play the originals. So I rush home after buying the game, and plug in. Ah, the way it looked was so pretty, amazing sexy pixels and great animation on the sprite sheets. Very sexy for its time I would assume. So clean and great transitions... ah, it looked so great.

So there I was swimming around.... and arround.. doing little flips out of the ocean and going down, swimming fast... but nothing happened. Maybe I need to wait, maybe the cart is loading? It wouldn't be the first cart that needs to preload memmory and assets. Still nothing.

Ok the cart maybe froze up, its a little old. I took out the cart, NES blew it, and then stuck it back in. Started back up, and couldn't figure it out still. I just was a dolphin, in the ocean and I could swim around. This is the stupidest game ever.. so what was all this awesome stuff with crystals etc that my friends were talking about, non of this is fun. I don't see anything but this stupid crystal that says nonsense. The game cart must be broken!

So I returned the cart saying the game wasn't working, in hopes I would get another cart. Instead the guy says well whats wrong? I explained to him that the game doesn't move forward like its hard locked or something just wont load the rest of the game.

Immediatly this guy knew exactly what I was talking to as well as every person here who has ever played Ecco probably knows exactly what you need to do. This guy decides to be a smart ass, he gets an old sega from the back and hooks it up to the little tv where they check consoles when you turn them in. This guy then starts to be arrogant talking loudly so I knew he was attracting attention, and then says. Your game isn't broken bro, just jump!

Lone behold, I felt like the biggest waste of a gamer ever. Man did I feel like garbage. I just took my Ecco game and went home, and it still sits there in my closet lol. Never played because I am scarred from the douche at Gamestop.

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The TMNT game also comes to mind. I thought I just sucked at it as a kid, never tried it as an adult.

For me, Super Mario Bros. was very tough, even as an adult. World 8-3 was a nightmare with the Hammer Bros. That took me a while to beat.

But the real kicker I'd say are the Ecco the Dolphin games. Now those were some impossible games for me as a kid. I did manage to beat both of the Genesis games as an adult, but boy were there some frustrating moments to be had. I guess I should have taken it as a bad sign when they give you infinite lives by default.

Oh man Ecco the Dolphin.

Ok here comes the embarassing part of my life, and I am glad that I didn't get my gamer card taken from me. After I tell this story, some of you may never look at me the same way again.

There I was age 17, I had my Sega, and I just bought Ecco the Dolphin from Gamestop for 4$! Mind you Ecco has been out for some time as the current generation when I was 17 was Xbox just launching.

I get the game mainly because I was on a wierd kick of ocean games and started with DreamCast's Ecco the Dolphin, beat it and wanted to play the originals. So I rush home after buying the game, and plug in. Ah, the way it looked was so pretty, amazing sexy pixels and great animation on the sprite sheets. Very sexy for its time I would assume. So clean and great transitions... ah, it looked so great.

So there I was swimming around.... and arround.. doing little flips out of the ocean and going down, swimming fast... but nothing happened. Maybe I need to wait, maybe the cart is loading? It wouldn't be the first cart that needs to preload memmory and assets. Still nothing.

Ok the cart maybe froze up, its a little old. I took out the cart, NES blew it, and then stuck it back in. Started back up, and couldn't figure it out still. I just was a dolphin, in the ocean and I could swim around. This is the stupidest game ever.. so what was all this awesome stuff with crystals etc that my friends were talking about, non of this is fun. I don't see anything but this stupid crystal that says nonsense. The game cart must be broken!

So I returned the cart saying the game wasn't working, in hopes I would get another cart. Instead the guy says well whats wrong? I explained to him that the game doesn't move forward like its hard locked or something just wont load the rest of the game.

Immediatly this guy knew exactly what I was talking to as well as every person here who has ever played Ecco probably knows exactly what you need to do. This guy decides to be a smart ass, he gets an old sega from the back and hooks it up to the little tv where they check consoles when you turn them in. This guy then starts to be arrogant talking loudly so I knew he was attracting attention, and then says. Your game isn't broken bro, just jump!

Lone behold, I felt like the biggest waste of a gamer ever. Man did I feel like garbage. I just took my Ecco game and went home, and it still sits there in my closet lol. Never played because I am scarred from the douche at Gamestop.
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Fortunately I played Tides of Time first, so I'd read up on it and knew what to do. Otherwise I'd have been completely lost too. The puzzle there kind of reminds me of Carnival Night Zone in Sonic 3... devs must not have had that stage play tested enough, heh.

It's called "Nintendo Hard" for a reason.

I never have beat Heavy Gear 2. I'm pretty sure I got to the last or second to last level, but I've always hated the sort of levels where you have to protect something.