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What is the most difficult game everyone has ever played, how frustrating was it?
Difficulty of games is not often documented about games, so I'm curious to see the results.

For me this title would have to be Hellnight (http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/getinfo.pl?ID=E-061-S-05030-A).
A first person game in which you are defenceless, and getting chased by a creature that will kill you upon contact. While there is only the one creature after you, there are multiple paths as with most dungeon like crawlers. This is where it gets hard. So you can't come in contact with this creature, and yet there are dead ends. So wind up at a dead end, and chances are you then just have to wait until you get killed since you can't go back past this creature. Also think you can just keep running flat out? Think again, as your character will tire out.

This game was bloody hard and I didn't get overly far in it... that being said I now feel like playing it again to see if I can actually get further..... but may just avoid going through the frustration.

Skullmonkeys is fucking difficult as well. One touch by any enemy without the halo surrounding you means instant death.

The only one I can think of right off the top pf my head is Kid Icarus. That game is damn hard.

Silver Surfer for the NES is one of the more difficult games I've ever played.  It is both a horizontal and verticle shooter and one hit means death.  The surfer is just too big and moves too slow to avoid enough enemy fire.  I've never seen someone last more than 2 minutes in this game.  It deserves the difficult rap it receives.

Game kicks major ass. Thanks for the reminder. I need to pick this up.



Haven't played either of the NES games but i'll have to check them out too. Especially Silver Surfer. I <3 hori/vert shooters

when i was a kid, i only had 5 games for the nes. and gremlins 2 was the only one i couldnt complete. i keep meaning to play it all the way through but never seem to have the time. i will try it one day though

Dragon's Lair on the NES. It's so hard that I had forgotten about it. The character starts off at a drawbridge of a castle. Move him over to the drawbridge and oh, woops! He fell through into the moat full of crocodiles. Ok, this time I'll try doing it without stopping. Nope! He still falls through. And from what I remember there were projectiles being thrown at him, so you couldn't get past the drawbridge at all.


Edit: I just played it again and finally got past the drawbridge, after umpteen attempts. It's a dragon that comes up from under the bridge, not crocodiles. The projectiles were a bat. When I got past it took another umpteen attempts to get a small way along the next room. It's just so clunky and unresponsive.

Im gonna have to say Metroid and Bigfoot on the NES

Metroid because i get lost so damn easy and keep dying.

Bigfoot because it just too hard. You gotta do so much dang button mashing by pressing left and right one after the other while holding down the b button for acceleration AND pressing the A button for shifting several times. The rallies you do are too hard.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES. I don't think I knew anyone who ever beat that.

I loved that game.... but never finished it.

As far as games that really make me want to break things my vote would have to go to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. That game had some REALLY challenging puzzles in it. Oh, and Intelligent Qube, that game was hard as hell.

I couldn't agree more, that game is tough!!  I also gave up trying in the last part of the 2nd screen. 

Sliver Surfer was the first one that came to my mind. I rented it and tried it with a game genie and I still couldn't beat it.

That game is fucking hard as hell  but I actually did beat it....once.  The last level is hard as hell.  If you can get to Shredder you need to beat him on your first try or you won't have enough health to beat him after that.  I love the game so much but man was it TOUGH!!  Battletoads is another hard game.

I managed to beat Battletoads on the MegaDrive, but apparently the difficulty is slightly toned down in that version so I'll have to try and conquer the NES original sometime. That being said, the Amiga CD 32 version is by far the hardest as the controls are crippled in it with the jump button being the same as the attack button, except you jump when you push a direction and the button.... despite how many other buttons the control has...
 :swear:

I beat it a couple times in 2-p

Isn't the original single player?

Yeah, I couldn't get past 1-3 then one day I started over and trained until I had 999 hearts. I grew about 3 levels and the rest was pretty easy after that. I never did beat it though.

I could never beat Ninja Gaiden. I got to 6-3 and just gave up after trying for like 2 hours. :(

Jumper 2.

Right you are, I haz teh arcade one.

I agree!

Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend

The 1st Postal 2 was actually fun with a huge amount of freedom, I would of much preferred the extra weapons just get thrown into that game.

They have made AW so frustratingly hard later on to make up for the games shortness and lame story line. I may still get around to finishing it at some point, but geez. Not as hard as some games just done poorly in a frustrating way with a needlessly stupid level of difficulty.

AW was harder. But it wasn't hard.

I can't wait for Postal 3

I just hate getting stripped of everything you spent so long collecting and having to face hordes of army men. But yeah, not the hardest, Just had to vent my frustration haha.

Those whirlwind cats were annoying, I remember that.

Oh God, Everyday Shooter is insanely difficult on the later levels.

Might be easy if you're a shmup fan or really good at those bullet hell type shmups, but for someone like me who's only a casual shmup player, it's really difficult.

I still haven't tried it for the Genesis for NES, but Sky Shark for the arcade is ridiculously tough.  Especially the last area.  It might have something to do with my games sticky controls, but I've played the hell out of that game and I cannot beat it.  I always get stuck on the last part and the screen fills up with enemies. 

Aas for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I played that game so much as a kid that I can get to the last level pretty regularly now, but I can't beat the game.  My memory is a little fuzzy on it because I haven't played it in a while, but I think the problem was that I could never find my way through the last board.

Ninja Gaiden for Xbox.  Legacy of the Wizard for NES and Friday the 13th.

I definitely retract Apocalypse Weekend, aside from the absolute pain in the ass of starting over again with all your weapons gone once again once you get your machete back things get a lot easier.