/vr/ - Retro Games

It's got to be Silver Surfer or Battletoads. I can't imagine a game being much harder.

The Adventures of Bayou Billy

Miracle Piano.

>>5608757

>>5608789
The difficulty of this game is heavily overstated.

>>5608763
Oh for fuck's sake, these games are only hard because of amount of shit you have to memorize. Memorizing isn't a challenge, it's more like a school exam. It's artificial difficulty.

Look at this piece of shit for example. It's literally the cheapest attempt to make the game longer and artificially difficult and you can't deny that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3vbfsAFAgU

>>5608757
Takeshi's challenge, no arguement.

>>5608789
>>5608816
So can you fags explain what's supposedly so incredibly hard about this game, since you've totally played it and all?

Battletoads is definitely the hardest.

>>5608776
I'll second this one. Managed to beat it once when I was a kid and couldn't even manage to do it ever again. Way too difficult.

>>5608757
Battletoads. If you used savestates to beat it then you didn't actually beat it, fact.

>>5608802
The clinger-winger on stage 11 is even worse IMO. No checkpoints, one mistake = death. I can't even imagine trying to beat it on 2-player. After I finally got past that shitty stage, I beat the last with relativity no trouble.

Hoshi wo Miru Hito / Stargazer is the hardest NES game. It's an absolutely legendary garbage pile.

>>5609176
>I can't even imagine trying to beat it on 2-player.
You can't. The game is bugged so the second player's bike just won't move and the second player will get hit by the ball and die immediately.

>>5608757
stupid nigger poster

>>5609256
Ah, I guess that's appropriate. The devs probably assumed no 2-player team would ever get that far anyway, so why bother testing it.

>>5608757
Ghosts 'n Goblins for NES.

Holy. Fucking. Schiesse. This game is hard as shit.

>>5608757
Gimmick! true ending

>>5609282
Only if you use the "HARD!" password. Some pirated copies have you play the game with one hit kills by default. Good ol' anti piracy at work.

>>5608757
It's Holy Diver imo.

>>5609308
Famicom version of Ghosts'n Goblins is harder. There are no continues in this version (3 lifes for whole fucking game ), there are much more enemies and some of them are more aggressive and unpredictable. Yes, it's basically unplayable, and impossible to complete for normal player.

>>5610525
There's a continue code.

>>5608757
Battletoads, hands down.

>>5608776
>The Adventures of Bayou Billy-every enemy is a last boss.
And that.

>>5608789
It's hard but not in the same way we consider games hard.

>>5611785
It's not THAT hard, you just have to try shit until you figure out what has a positive effect. It's mostly just trial and error gameplay.

>>5611210
That's a developer debug code so it's cheating

>>5612487
when you post a full video of you beating it everyone will believe you lad, until then its the hardest nes game.

>>5609308
>Holy. Fucking. Schiesse

>>5613593
I did, on pornhub

Summer carnival 92 recca

>>5608776
it was my first nes game , so fucking impossible

Championship Pool
Ikari Warriors (no continue code/ABBA)
To the Earth
High Speed
R.C. Pro-Am
Bump 'N Jump

>>5608757
Hard because they were made by Micronics:
Ikari Warriors, Ghosts n' Goblins, Super Pitfall

Hard because the designers were assholes:
Battletoads, Silver Surfer, Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania 3, Dragon's Lair, Adventure Island, Double Dragon 3

Ikari Warriors is the #1 hardest imo, especially without ABBA

>>5608757
Battletoads

You kinda have to make multiple categories for hard NES games. You've got hard because they're incredibly poorly designed, hard because they expect you to memorise a bunch of shit and go through it trial and error to pad out the game, and the type where it's fair but incredibly tough and unforgiving. It's way easier to list the former.

>>5608789
It's beatable if you know what you're supposed to do.

>>5608802
you are beyond full of shit

>>5608763
silver surfer is one of the easiest shmups ever made

>>5613638
On the secret highest difficulty setting? MAYBE. And even then probably not.

Ghosts n Goblins

>>5613838
Hard as fuck, but not the hardest. Try the arcade version-you will never beat that game.

D-Pad Hero. I'm just shit at the game. Maybe I'm just too damn old.

>>5608802
>he fell for the artificial difficulty meme

>>5608776
gets my vote. that theme tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYuyWqp_4Dw

>>5616140
When did Rorschach get his own NES game?

>>5608757
The Ninja Gaiden Series is fucking hard as shit

>ctrl+F
>no dr. jekyll
Could AVGN possibly ever lie?

>>5608763
Double Dragon III is fairly difficult
mostly just because of the final boss fight

sweet game tho

>>5608757
Not a crazy difficult game, but the final boss is super difficult.

also a sweet game

>>5618641
Fuck that "use your martial arts in order" bullshit to defeat him.

spelunker is a platformer that jumping kills you lmao

>>5608757
Indy Adventure Kid

Its so hard in fact, you wont even be able to obtain the game.

>>5608776
>The Adventures of Bayou Billy
That version, absolutely! Nigh impossible BS hard game.

It wasn't originally that way, though. One more classic case of ports getting fucked over. The original Japanese version, Mad City, is WAY more reasonable in its difficulty and is actually fun to play. You take half as much damage from enemies as in Bayou Billy, start with more ammo on the shooting levels, you get a life bar instead of one-hit kills on the driving stages, etc.

>>5613830
Agreed. There are many examples of NES games that are hard just because they’re poorly made or unfinished. Personally I think we should only count competently made difficult games.

>>5619115
Really fun game, but the fatal height for jumping was very low, I'll agree.

>>5618617
Dr. Jekyll is easy as shit though.

>>5618639
Made it to the last boss so many times as a kid, but could never beat that bitch