/vr/ - Retro Games

Mario 1 isn't too bad. Zelda isn't either. I even beat both of those games today just because I came home and had the chance to play some NES.

I think Metroid has a good balance of difficulty.

I'm working on Ghosts n Goblins right now. It's not really that hard, but people say it is.

Dragon Warrior, from my memory isn't too bad.

>>3128145
I might also say contra with the Konami code isn't all that hard.

Kirby's Adventure
Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers
DuckTales
Jackie Chan's Action Ku-Fu
Willow
Puss n' Boots

Kirby's Adventure
Chip & Dale Rescue Ranger
Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu
Willow
Puss n' Boots
Tiny Toon Adventures (up to a point)
Mega Man 3 with the "hold down in controller 2" cheat.

>I'm tired of feeling like a girl because I can't beat any
Problematic

Gargoyle's Quest II is easy and fun.

>>3128338
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8

>>3128361
don't reply to any tripfag on any board for any reason whatsoever. even if you're right, even if they're wrong, you just can't do it. any reply at all means they win. once they stop getting replies to their posts, they'll take off their trip and post like everybody else

>>3128127
Bugs Bunnys Birthday Blowout

It just takes fucking forever.

>>3128127
Super Mario Bros.

Wacky Races
SMB3

>>3128216

Agreed with Kirby and Chip & Dale.. both easy and really fun games to play.

>Mega Man 3 with the "hold down in controller 2" cheat.

whats this? never heard about this cheat

Monster in my Pocket man

>>3128369
I really wish the newfriends would finally figure this out.

>>3128462
Get something like a chair or stool and put one of its legs on the Down direction of the 2P controller. This grants you a super jump, and also you can't die by falling into pits.

Metroid is pretty easy imo.
Starts out pretty hard though, but once you've got your first E-tank and handful of rockets it's pretty much a cakewalk

>>3128903
Monster In My Pocket is my shit, I still am able to beat that game without loosing a life.

>>3128127
You just posted one.

Why's everyone posting so many hard games? If OP wants something easy he should play Little Mermaid. 15 minutes long, almost impossible to lose.

>>3129290
And pretty damn fun too.

>>3128956
I literally never knew this, holy shit

>>3129308
Well enjoy man. I grew up on that cheat. It's one of the main reasons why MM3 is my favorite of the franchise.

>>3128127
Gauntlet II

Any Disney Capcom game, like Darkwing Duck and Duck Tales. They're actually good games. Easy, fun, and pretty. Samurai Pizza Cats is also very similar.

>>3129371
When I was a kid, I once played Gauntlet II for 3 days straight (thanks Game Genie) trying to beat it before I realized that it never ends.

>>3128127
Mega man games are easy but very fun, 2 is the easiest of them.

>>3129396
Darkwing Duck is a pretty hard fucking game tho

>>3128903
Just got this game.. great fun for an easy game.Interesting level design, good control, good hit detection.. really good one

>>3129396
Dark wing duck is pretty tough actually, pretty good game though.

>>3129528
Especially the final boss until you know exactly what to do.

>>3128127
Tetris

Play for Raiders

>>3128216
This list plus Ducktales and Super Mario USA. Both are pretty easy to beat. Castlevania 2 is actually very easy to beat, even moreso if you don't care about %100. Robin Hood is easy once you get the hang of it. Snow Bros is easy enough, you shouldn't have too hard of a time beating it. If you don't mind puzzle games, Fire N Ice is very easy.

>>3128341
>Gargoyle's Quest II is easy
Well, the last boss or two, yeah.

>>3130284
>Fire N Ice is very easy

Kind of a weird blanket statement. It starts off easy but by the end gets pretty hard. I remember having to get graph paper to work out a solution to one of the maps.

>>3128127
Commando, Rygar, Zelda.

>>3128369
This this this.

>implying girls are bad at games

>>3128127
Wagyan Land

I was shit at games and only beat a few, so I always assumed these games were super easy:

The Legend of Zelda
Super Mario Bros. 1 & 3
Kirby's Adventure
Guerilla War
Bad Dudes

>>3128127
Antarctic adventure

Cannot think of anything easier than that game.

>>3130478
My friend cannot beat SMB. Game Overs on 1-1 all day. She kicks my ass at Magical Jewelry and Pyo Pop like it's her job though.

Just drop a good 3-5 hours into any good NES game. If you haven't gotten a "knack" for it by the 5 hour part just move on to something that suits your skills more.

"Nintendo Hard" is mainly just having a very steep difficulty curve in the beginning. Once there's a game you really can get in the zone on, you'll be sad that it's not any longer than it is.

this one is pretty easy

>>3130478
You wouldn't know faggot.

>>3130478
We're not talking about flappy bird or candy crush here, sweetheart.

>>3128216
seconding Jackie Chan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZejQ7X4jSkE

>>3130528
Bad Dudes is honestly pretty fucking hard. You must've just put in months worth of time as a kid mastering it.

>>3130569

>drop 3-5 hours into a game to see if you git gud, THEN you can start enjoying yourself

I honestly wish I had the time to do this. Main reason I can never get into NES games. I like them, but I can only play them as about a ten minute novelty. Spending 5 hours grinding just to start enjoying the game is like, a quarter of my weekend just gone in one hit, or an entire evening on a worknight. My time is too precious to justify that.

Being an adult fucking sucks.

>46 replies
>No Final Fantasy

This is embarrassing.

>>3131632
you don't have to do it all in one sitting

>>3129396
>>3129528
>>3129528

Darkwing Duck is the only NES game I've ever beaten without emulator tricks. I'm just that bad.

>>3129502
Megaman 3 is easier. It is a longer game but you can have up to 9 etank and shadow blade is nearly as good as metal blade. Rush jet is fully controllable instead of item2 or game after this.

>>3128127
Maybe if you tried for more than 10 minutes you'd beat one.

>>3131643
Even if you use the rape train, the game still requires a good 10 to 20 hour investment. That's not easy on the mind.

>>3131793
Beat one in 10 minutes? What?

>>3131801
It's maybe not easy on your sanity, but it's also not challenging in any way. No party set up is, it just depends how much you have to grind.

>>3131802
is your reading comprehension really that bad or are you just troleing?

>>3128127
Try Felix the Cat.
If you can't beat even that one, just retire.

>>3131632
>Being an adult fucking sucks.

No it doesn't, you just took the wrong path. It's never too late to go full NEET.

Excitebike - Mario 2 USA - Kirby - Archanoid - Little Nemo (I remember being engrossed in this one quite a lot as a 7 year old kid) - Little Samson - Bubble Bobble (tricky but easy to pick up and play) - Adventures In The Magic Kingdom

>>3128127
*whispers* git gud

>>3128127
Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti is short, easy, and super fun.

>>3132149
that game was more fun than it had a right to be
but yeah, I didn't die once in the entire playthrough

>>3133098
>Adventures in the Magic Kingdom
Hell fucking no. That game is stupidly difficult, especially for being attached to Disney. I've never been able to get any key other than the trivia one.

Most NES games are pretty easy. They just give the illusion of difficulty because you have to play through the whole game again if you mess up. All this does is make it take a long time to beat, it doesn't make it more difficult.

>>3133098
You can't even really win Excitebike. You just place first in each race and work on improving your times.

Jaws for NES. Very repetitive but easy to beat in about 15 mins tho

Castlevania 1 isn't too hard in the scheme of things, especially compared to 3. Simon's Quest also isn't hard, although some people will be thrown off by the bad translation, I didn't have too hard of a time with it, and the rest of the game is piss easy in comparison.

>>3135557
The difficulty and translation of Castlevania II isn't a problem, the problem with that game is that it's a fucking slog to get through.

Even with Bisqwit's hack it doesn't change the fact that you have to grind constantly.

>>3128127

Gimmick! is both easy and a lot of fun (unless you want to unlock the best ending)

Get the jap version if you're going to emulate it, it has better sound quality.

>>3128361
Tyrone! I missed Tyrone!

>>3133496
>They just give the illusion of difficulty because you have to play through the whole game again if you mess up.

I wish this "artificial difficulty" meme died.
A game doesn't need to have checkpoints every 12 seconds to be considered hard.

Endurance, memorization, pattern recognition, resource management, being very careful so you don't die an hour into the game... those are all skills that can be used to determine something's difficulty.

Also some of the responses in this thread are just retarded. Castlevania 1, Bubble Bobble, Zelda 1, Metroid, and Ghost 'N Goblins aren't particularly easy.

I would agree about Kirby's Adventure, Mario 1-2-3, Chip 'N Dale, Kid Niki 1-2 (maybe 3, haven't played it), Little Mermaid, Power Blade, Felix the Cat, Monster Party.

Some games like River City Ransom and TMNT 2 are just easy if you're playing them in a given way (in RCR you spam your way through the game with Dragon Feet, in TMNT2 you can do the same thing with neutral jump attacks).

>>3128127
Darkwing Duck

Chip&Dale: Rescue Rangers

>>3130528
Guerilla War has unlimited continues, right?

>>3128145
>Ghosts n Goblins
On NES? Why? It's an utterly terrible port, easily the worst port of the game and there are lots. Capcom handed it it out to some losers called Micronics and they completely fucked it.
>>3128168
It's not hard without the code, just stick with the spread gun.

>>3140002
GnG NES is still a lot of fun tho

Wrath of the Black Manta's pretty easy. One of the first games I beat without a Game Genie.

>>3133098
>little nemo
>easy
Little samson is pretty hard too.

>>3140002
I find GNG fun, regardless if it's shitty.

I also recommended the code with Contra because my friend never beat any NES game, and felt they were always too hard. I showed him Contra with the code, and we had a great time playing it.

He is also the reason I'm playing GNG. It started as a race on who can beat it first, but I just play it out of habit now.

>>3131643
FFIII is much easier IMO

>>3140370
Little Nemo becomes easier once you understand the mechanics. The real bullshit starts when you get to the nightmare level. They introduce a new mechanic that barely works, and the level just goes on forever. Plus, if you get a game over, you get sent back to the beginning of it. I still haven't beaten that stage.

>>3135623
>Gimmick!
>easy

I could never use that damn star properly...
And that secret items bullcrap is an insult.

Wai Wai World 2: SOS!! Paseri Jou.
It's fun, fan translated, and beatable without a huge amount of skill.
A love letter that classicKonami wrote to itself. One of my all time faves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtlIkRRewsE

>>3135703
>Endurance, memorization, pattern recognition, resource management, being very careful so you don't die an hour into the game...

That's all fine and dandy, but artificial difficulty is still a factor.
It doesn't matter how skilled you are, you will fail the first time you try the falling pit in quickman stage in megaman or the red planet stage in bucky o'hare.

Another example is the final stage in Ninja Gaiden (USA). If you get a game over on 6-4, you get sent back to the beginning of 6-4. If you die at the boss, you get sent all the way back to 6-1. If that's not the definition of artificial difficulty I don't know what is.

It's like the game is cheating. It suddenly realizes you're about to win and changes the rules in its favor. That's just cheap.

>>3143768

So... in your opinion what's a game without "artificial difficulty"?

>>3140370
Yeah this level and the last world ensure that I would not personally classify Nemo as an easy game.

>>3135703
You, I like you.

>>3143768
>If you get a game over on 6-4, you get sent back to the beginning of 6-4. If you die at the boss, you get sent all the way back to 6-1. If that's not the definition of artificial difficulty I don't know what is.

It's to balance out the fact that if you killed one of the end bosses they stay dead. It wouldn't be much of a challenge if you could perma-kill them AND still start at 6-4.

Felix The Cat is an awesome game. Easy yet fun and cool powerups

>>3133491
The Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean stages were such bullshit. Unreasonably long, limited time, and a number of points where you just can't avoid taking damage.

The train was primarily luck, racing wasn't too bad -- was my go-to stage for picking up Stars to turn into 1-ups, if I remember correctly -- and Space Mountain kicked my ass for the longest time until I stopped paying attention to the flight and focused on the input command window.

>>3129290
This is true

Also Felix the Cat

It's fun and easy

>>3132149
Got Felix for a dollar at a yard sale and was pleasantly surprised how much fun it is. Power ups are fun.

>>3128127
>I'm tired of feeling like a girl
Thanks a lot.

>>3135623
I love the game but the final boss isn't easy

MC Kids and Bugs Bunny games are extremely easy and fun

>>3129502

4, 5, and 6 are even easier.

>>3128127
Wizards and warriors

Inifinite continues, respawn right where you died, with no break in the action.

>>3150596
MC Kids takes forever though. No save or password feature and you gotta revisit old levels to find enough cards to proceed. I was physically exhausted after spending an entire afternoon on it. It was easy I guess.

>>3132149
This. It's a fun game and you will beat it on your first play through. Even if you really suck, 1-ups are everywhere. I think I had like 30+ lives remaining when I beat the game. Only fault with the game iirc is there is no difficulty setting, so it's always going to be a cakewalk.

Gradius and Life Force aren't too hard, and they're both a lot of fun.

Play Spartan X2, you'll have it beat in 40 minutes or less.

Life Force is quick and easy for a shooter, you'd probably finish it within 20-30 mins

Legend of Zelda is pretty easy, first time maybe have a small guide since some of the puzzles are a bit cryptic

Bucky O'Hare has some challenge for a platformer but is not very long so definitely worth trying

>>3152876
I tried this recently. There's a part where the level grows and gives you less space to move around, and near the beginning of that section there's a part I'm convinced you have to take a hit on.