/vr/ - Retro Games

"Welcome to the Machine" from Ecco the Dolphin. The Autoscroller from hell.

I think I got through it twice but I died to the final boss both times, but I wasn't about to go through that shit again.

Maybe I should get back to it and put my demons to rest, it probably isn't even that hard with more experience.

>>1563484
>it probably isn't even that hard with more experience

You poor, damn fool.

This...this level in The Revenge of Shinobi, gave me the most grief out of the whole game. Everything else seemed like a cake walk after that level.

>>1563507
I bet it's the waterfall isn't it

>>1563507

And I forgot the image.

>>1563509
Yes yes it is...damn fucking waterfalls man...

Two words.

Turbo Tunnel.

obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OogR6v3Tsg

>>1563525

Yoooooou... No, I killed you! You're supposed to be dead!

SURE SEEMS TO BE A THEME OF 16BIT DISNEY GAMES HERE.

Seriously, fuck these games. Fuck everything.

Fucking Technodrome why you never are in the sewer I went to? Also the hallway of death inside the Technodrome.

in b4 people who never even played TMNT posting about the dam level because they saw it in AVGN's review. It's NOT hard only slightly annoying. Everyone who I know who actually played the game when it came out DID beat it and many of them weren't even that good with video games

>>1563512
I thought I was so good at Battletoads. But when I got to Turbo Tunnel, I really hit a wall.

Anyone else agree that the ps1 oddworld games had some really rage inducing sections? Especially if you wanted every mudokon freed.

Still fantastic games, great atmosphere.

>>1563525
>>1563530
Everyone complains about that level, but I never had a problem with it. Was it easier on Genesis than on SNES or something? I mean, I used to beat that level as a kid all the time.

The only thing that haunts me is how I never managed to beat Scar. I'd always just get frustated and quit.

>>1563538
>It's NOT hard only slightly annoying

How are you going to tell other people what they find difficult?

>>1563546

You think this is fucking game Carlos?

>>1563538
The very first time I played the dam, I had a lot of trouble. However, on subsequent playthroughs it's not so hard, because you get a feel for the layout and control scheme. It's very annoying, and you might die or even game over your first time through. But it's not the kind of thing that cold stops you forever. And, back then, failing a few times, or even many times, before you finally beat the game was just part of the way things were done.

The really hard parts came after. Eventually it gets to the point where enemies are too strong to fight directly. You can only either fight them from a distance with subweapons, charge through without fighting, or take advantage of the terrain to trap them while you wail on them from safety. You either go Donny or go home.

>>1563549
as you can see in the video, it gets frustrating very easily

Hi guys, remember me?

>>1563569
Yeah, I mean, I died a lot on that stage as a kid, but it was never particularly frustrating to me. I thought stupid shit like the bugcatch game was way more frustrating.

In the same vein, since people mentioned Revenge of Shinobi, too, I didn't have trouble with the waterfall level, but I always had trouble with the boss ninja you fight in the club who has the afterimages.

Maybe I'm just bad at fighting and good at puzzles and platforming.

>>1563574
I vaguely remember just restarting the level at that point and finding another way around. Could never get the hang of that thing.

>>1563464
I remember my brother getting really far on that stage and he told me to come and see and I ran over and broke my toe on the couch. I didn't play the game much after that.

>>1563525
that genesis soundchip shines like a turd in this video

>what's wrong, anon? i thought you wanted to show me the halloween levels?

>>1563635

That was one of the easiest special levels though

Beating Bubble Bobble with a friend and without killing each other.

>>1563512

Turbo Tunnel? Pffft!

Now, the Ice Cave... man, there is this jump where a single pixel can mean you hit the ceiling and fall down to insta kill spikes. Fuck that shit.

Now I use the Warps just because of that jump. It's that rage inducing for me.

Oh don't mind me, just having shit grappling hook physics and blowing you off the stage constantly.

>>1563635
Blue Yoshi ftw

>>1563662
that is a babies game its easy as shit dude!

>>1563510
Waterfalls were pretty easy if you used the jumping skill. The hardest level was the maze before you fought the final boss.

>>1563510
It gave me a lot of trouble the first time I played it, but after you get the double jumping timing right and know where every enemy is, it's a cakewalk.

>>1563757
yeah, Revenge of Shinobi was more about learning the levels than anything. When you know the enemy locations 90% of the game is easy as hell. The other 10% is boss battles (for me).

>>1563538
>hallway of death
A load of bull and shit.

>>1563464
Ah, yes. Me and my sister LOVED this game growing up. But yeah, some of the jumps in this level are very tedious.

>>1563510
Without an instruction manual telling you that double-jump exists in this game, this level will teach you about it. And it will do so the hard way.

Hey there, watcha doing? It would be a shame if I halted your progress for the next 2 hours...

>>1563860
implying that doesnt take 3-7 tries max

>>1563860

You serious?

>>1563538

>>1563917
Not that hard compared to the rest of the game

>>1563894
I was fucking terrible with timing as a kid, ok?

>>1563464
It took me quite some time to get past this level as a kid, but I did it.

The next level carpet riding would always wreck my shit and make me see the Game Over screen.

Every. Single. Time.

>>1563464
That level wasn't that hard once you got the timing right. The trick was to jump from the sinking platforms in the last second: usually there was a mini lava explosion that hurt you if you jumped too fast, you had to wait for those to dissipate first.
Small boulders can be knocked down with your scimitar.
The huge boulders are slightly faster than you are, and you LOSE speed if you jump midway, so you should just run without stopping. The only time you might want to jump is for that extra life.
As long as you don't panic, the level is not hard.

>>1563932
Rug Ride was the best level in the game. Awesome music, and really fast scrolling. It really pumped the adrenaline.

Also you can only do the level twice I think, there are so many extra lives scattered around that the game has to automatically advance after you die twice, so you can't stock up on lives.

>>1563584
The ostrich jumping wasn't too hard after a few playthroughs and the Roar At Monkeys part was just trial and error. What always fucked me up was the collission detection on the hippo tails. You'd just fly right through them sometimes if you didn't land on them just right. Especially in that section right above the water.

>>1563538
Even as a kid, I found the dam level more fun than the rest of the game. And I suck at vidya.

I was just raging over the final boss of Shinobi 3 but I finally figured out a way to cheese it. With one of the ninjitsus you can basically refill your health to max at the cost one of your extra lives. For me losing an extra life was trivial because I had about 15 lives because I hardly ever died until reaching the final boss because I had so much practice doing it because I kept getting game over at him. So I just kept spamming that ninjitsu anytime I'd get low and brute forced him.

Yay now I can move on to GG Shinobi!

Wings of Wor, the level in the pic. The difficulty spiked at this point, and I basically gave up. Great game though.

Also got quite far in Chakan (one of the later elemental stages, not the first four) and it just take a long time to play that far so I haven't attempted again. Maybe one day...

>>1563464
I ragequit the first time on this stage but eventually I overcame it and pretty much mastered it.
I ragequit on the Genie level though. Why would they make such a fun level so fucking difficult?

>>1563525
The ostrich part can go fuck itself.
I know with a bit of repetition you can master it but its quite the learning curve which is annoying considering everything after that part isn't nearly as difficult.
Maybe I'm just a pussy and should get over myself though.

>>1564348
"Its" is the possessive of "it".
"It's" is a contraction of "it is".

>>1564350
Fuck my grammar. When I type fast I always gloss over its and it's. Thanks for the correction.

>>1564354
No problem, anon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-YG_cAxkNo

>>1563574
When I was a kid I could do that easily, I tried to go back a do it a few years ago and got stuck on it for about twenty minutes before I looked it up. I don't know what happened.

>>1563803
Every level besides the first in that game was rough. I was able to beat the first Wolverine, Spiderman and Cyclops stages, but never Gambit. My mom could work through storm though.

>>1564053
That game was so easy compard to Revenge of Shinobi. Only that jumping part in the end witht the platforms and electricity would give me trouble.

>>1563537
That fucking boss is hard even with savestates

>>1564562
>Oh hey, its the Jungle Book, I love that movie
>Oh wow, the graphics are amazing, they sure put a ton of effort into this game
>Why the fuck can't I kill this snake, I shot him at least 1000 times
>WHY CAN'T I DODGE THESE SEEKING SHOTS THEY FILL THE ENTIRE SCREEN

The game is still in my collection. I've never finished it.

I played Alladin at a demo unit somewhere and couldn't beat that one, either.

>>1563860

I thought I was the only one.

>>1564602
Holy. Shit.

I fucking loved that game

>>1564602
I love it too but I have no idea why. The fucking game has been handing my ass to me for 15 years now, makes me RAGEquit every single time I play it and yet I keep coming back to it.

>>1563917
UGH...FUCK IT! FUCK IT! Such stress...

>>1563549
Yeah, I don't really see a problem with that level either. I find it fairly simple and even entertaining to run through. However, you're right; the different versions did have some small differences in gameplay. Because of that, the second level was easiest to play on Genesis and hardest on SNES.

The part where I'm most likely to ragequit is level 8 with its lava, bats, and rocks. Or if I'm playing on the hardest difficulty, the fight with the hyenas at the very end of level 3 can get frustrating too.

>>1564652
Oh yeah, I forgot about level 8. Yeah that level was some shit.

UUUUAAAAAARRGHHHH!!!

This game didn´t have a specific hard level. Rayman was balls to the wall hard.

This was my very, very first video game.

I have gotten to this boss lots of times, and never, ever beaten him.

>no rings
>fucking bombs
>jumps on my dick
>have to jump on/over the shooting arms
>fuck you robotnik

>>1564880
That and Aquatic Zone from Sonic 2. For some reason when I was a kid I had a ton of trouble keeping on the top path and always ended up at the bottom of the level, underwater, drowning. That drowning countdown is drilled in to my mind forever. The absolute panic of trying to frantically search for bubbles. The horror of dying just as a big bubble finally comes out...

>>1564906
That was my very favorite game as a kid. I never beat him as a kid either, until I was maybe 13 or 14. Then I figured out how you beat him. Basically you just run to one of the edges of the level, wait for him to lock on, move at the last second, hit him while he's bending over, then run to the other side of the level. Rinse and repeat. It's actually pretty lame and easy once you figure it out.

>>1564908

That motherfucking rising water in Chemical Plants second act in Sonic 2.

I don't know what's worse: how it haunted my younger self's nightmares when playing the game, or how disgustingly easy it turned out to be for my adult self years later mixed with the shame for having so much trouble with it.

>>1564906

I actually ended up having way more trouble with Metal Sonic. For whatever reason I kept fucking up his patterns of attack and kept jumping when I shouldn't have.

>>1564995
Oh yeah, I had so much trouble with that part as a kid. And yeah, it's pretty trivial feeling now.

HEY TREVOR IT SURE WOULD SUCK IF YOU HAD TO SPEND AN HOUR BEATING THIS PART OVER AND OVER BECAUSE YOU KEEP GETTING TROLLED BY COLLAPSING PLATFORMS RIGHT BRO???

>>1564915

Next time I give this game a play through I'll try that for sure.

>>1563537
I actually got past Kaa a few times when I was a kid... quickly died on the next level tho

>>1563464
No rage quit, I didn't even know about the concept back then, but I did concentrate because I knew that level would eat up my lives and continues

But I always thought the lava looked cool as hell it's still the best lava and it was suceeded by the best level of the game, the carpet flying one, I dont know how I pass it but I got pretty twitchy with my reactions pressing the dpad towards the end.

The game in general got cooler afterwards

Ragequit was Gunstar Heroes and the sequel. It's always one stupid move. And Chemical Zone.

Earthworm Jim and the Lion King game were just stupid and I don't believe they have endings

>>1563635
>fliying spin

>>1565239

>Earthworm Jim 2
>The Flying King
>it's time to go outside anyways

I only ever beat that game with cheats. Lots and lots of cheats.

And with the ending we get for EWJ2, it might as well have no ending.

And then every anon and even OP were actually a cow.

>>1564906
I used to be subbed to Sonic Comic, and read tons of other videogame magazines at the time, and I saw the same strategy to that fight reprinted dozens of times. Same with the goat confrontation in Broken Sword 1.
Before I ever picked up the games, I knew how to deal with those parts, just because of how many times I'd seen the solutions printed in mags.

>>1563632
nigger I'll cut you

>>1565320
>goat confrontation in Broken Sword 1
Oh fuck that part.

I really, really hate when a point-and-click adventure suddenly throws a timing-based puzzle at you. Is my entire train of thought faulty, or am I just supposed to wait until this one asshole turns away for five seconds? YOU DON'T KNOW

Fuck.

>>1565313
Flyin' King is easy. Just go through the level once, blow up everything on it, then rocket back to the start and bounce the bomb to the boss without any opposition. If you can bounce the bomb forward from a rocket, you can cover huge distances, but it's easy to lose track of where it is.
Tedious, but pretty easy.

Certainly not as bad as Puppy Love. In fact I can't think of any level in any game as bad as Puppy Love.

>>1566429
>Puppy Love
I always try to outrun the punishment. It's always futile, it always gets me, but I try nonetheless

>>1563538
I just played TMNT for the first time in years. I had a pretty smooth sailing for the first 4 levels but had to check out all 3 sewers to find the fucking Technodrome in level 5, ALL 3 of them. Well, I was able to beat it but the last level inside it... let's just say it didn't well, I quickly went through all lives and continues and I RAGEd hard for the first time in years.

I have to say that actually felt good and I have missed that feeling. Modern games definitely don't give you that feeling. Thanks 4chan for being down/frozen today and actually making me play video games for once.

Battle of Olympus - Crete.
Any place in any sidescroller that does the whole "door X connects to door Y" maze is terrible in my opinion. Except maybe in Quackshot.

>>1563525
I was certain that guy was dying on purpose until I went to Youtube and read the description/comments.

God damn, how can you possibly be THAT bad at platforming?