Retro challenges modern gamers can't handle

[Anonymous No.5302909]

I've literally been unable to find a video if anyone actually doing this jump. The internet told them there was a shortcut so they don't even try.

What other skills are lost to time?

[Anonymous No.5302913]

Getting to Soda Lake without sacrificing Yoshi, using the cape only.

[Anonymous No.5302990]

>>5302909
Finishing Life Force (NES) without dying or cheating. Yes, after tons of practice, I was able to not die in that game, as well as at the end too with all the walls. You have to be fast and memorize as well.

[Anonymous No.5303121]

>>5302913
I just did it. I'll record a video now.

[Anonymous No.5303137]

>>5302909
No-death run of Super Ghouls n Ghosts

[Anonymous No.5303174]

>>5303121

[Anonymous No.5303249]

I honest to god can't do the magic carpet lava area in Aladdin so i have to password skip it

[Anonymous No.5304326]

>>5302913
That was the only way I knew how to do it.

[Anonymous No.5304375]

Launch the damn shuttle

[Anonymous No.5304409]

>>5302909
I've only done that jump once

[Anonymous No.5304705]

>>5302909
You weren't meant to do the jump in the first place.

[Anonymous No.5305367]

>>5304705
What do you mean by that? I see it as one of the game's best challenges because it tests your timing and skill in a good way, as opposed to the machine which is just memorizing. I don't think they should have put the shortcut in.

[Anonymous No.5305372]

DKC1, there's an offscreen barrel you can shoot to in Snow Barrel Blast that lets you bypass the final section. I did a 2-player contest with my friend once and he got up to get food while I did a perfect run of that level. He got fucked endlessly on it and then accidentally shot himself into that "skip" barrel. He wouldn't believe me when I told him I did it legit.

[Anonymous No.5305780]

>>5305367
Just because your way is harder doesn't mean the intended way is wrong. Might as well say that using Quilava against Steelix is a "shortcut".

[Anonymous No.5305804]

>>5303249
Never got past it. Same with Down the Tubes in Earthworm Jim

[Anonymous No.5305813]

>>5302909
Is that the motherfucking Atlantis jump? It's been like 20 years and I still remember that shit fuck. Didn't even know there was a shortcut, remember having to get right on the corner to bounce slide to the other pool or something

[Anonymous No.5305814]

Walljumping in super metroid. Any kid I manage to have play Super Metroid can't get past that part.

[Anonymous No.5305827]

>>5302990
Now go play the real salamander.

[Anonymous No.5305898]

>>5305814
I actually found out about it on my own near the beginning of the game, after doing it by accident.
I was playing Megaman X extensively prior to that, and my first thought was "did I just fucking walljumped?" After that I experimented and figured out how to do that consistently.
And much later I found the critters that show it to you.

[Anonymous No.5306059]

>>5305780
That makes no sense to me. One is a challenge in a game known for It's challenges and the other is swimming through an invisible wall to completely ignore it.

[Anonymous No.5306067]

Showed my early-20s relatives battletoads and they gave up and called bullshit before even getting to the jet-ski stage.

[Anonymous No.5306313]

They are lost arts because they just abandon the game at first difficulty. The idea that you run out of 1ups and have to restart from scratch is just foreign to them.

-Zelda 1, imagine having the patience to bomb/candle every bush and wall in the game today without cheating.

-Megaman 1 and 2 just having the feathered touch of a timed jumps in most stages are impossible for most kids today.

Castlevania 1 beating without save states or continues.

[Anonymous No.5306327]

>>5306067
Their loss. Sometimes i'd die at the end just so i could do it again

[Anonymous No.5306328]

>>5302909
super metroid in general
kids are basically retarded now

[Anonymous No.5306336]

>>5306313
>-Megaman 1 and 2 just having the feathered touch of a timed jumps in most stages are impossible for most kids today.

Totally this! The nuanced specifics of good old 8bit programming is lost on modern hardware

[Anonymous No.5306341]

>>5306328
Hey, the "y cant metroid crawl" kid actually beat the game, it just took him a while. Don't make fun of him since he didn't give up.

[Anonymous No.5306508]

>>5306341
Proud of him, well done Pauly

[Anonymous No.5306524]

>>5305814
You mean that completely optional, skippable side part that isn't required to complete the game?

[Anonymous No.5306545]

>>5305827
This. It has the sexiest cart for Famicom.

[Anonymous No.5306552]

>>5306545
I think he meant the arcade

[Anonymous No.5306575]

>>5303137
I can do it, but I'd have to go through the whole game at least once or twice before to work out the rust.

[Anonymous No.5306576]

>>5306552
I clearly typed NES.

[Anonymous No.5306583]

>>5306576
But he said the real salamander, no mention of NES there. And the real one is the original on superior hardware

[Anonymous No.5306627]

>>5306545
Life Force or Salamander? Or is Salamander only for TG16?

[Anonymous No.5306639]

>>5302909
>What other skills are lost to time?
Super Mario Bros. Super Player Mode

In order to unlock that, you have to play through the whole game without taking any shortcuts , among other things. Not saying the whole procedure because so many people have been asses to me to over it. It's very hard to do, so it's not a wonder why no one believes it anymore.

[Anonymous No.5306641]

>>5306583
Sorry, misunderstood who you were talking to, then.

[Anonymous No.5307007]

>>5306328
dude back in the day people would ask their friends for help with stupid shit like this, they also had nintendo power or friends with it, and of course they actually had the fucking manual unlike in a digital re-release.

[Anonymous No.5307832]

>>5305813
>>5302909
>>5304705

Start swimming top speed up the left wall and start to turn at this point just before the water surface.

[Anonymous No.5307838]

>>5304705
I managed to do it when I played it.
Was there a shortcut? I didn't know.
I never could beat the final boss though, and fuck doing all that autoscroller level again each time I die.

[Anonymous No.5307839]

>>5303174
I literally thought that was the only way to do that for many many years.

[Anonymous No.5307840]

>>5307832
If you did it right he will start to go into a spin after leaving the water then hold left and you'll clear the ledge.

[Anonymous No.5307842]

>>5303174
thats it, jesus christolph theses fucks are retarded if they cant do that.

[Anonymous No.5307845]

>>5307839
>>5307842
A lot of skillets use Yoshi

[Anonymous No.5307846]

>>5307840
Easy peasy lemon squeezy

>>5307838
Vortex Queen is a royal pain I won't disagree and much as I love Ecco, The Machine is a terrible level and a sad mark on an otherwise great game.

[Anonymous No.5307847]

>>5303174
You can also do this with Yoshi, as seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1bbeeYPv5o

[Anonymous No.5307856]

>>5307846
good shit

[Anonymous No.5307860]

>>5307847
take that pussy-ass technique and shove it up your ass

[Anonymous No.5307914]

I wouldn't call it a challenge, because I think it's actually impossible now. But in Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny there was this little place across a body of water with a flashing light that I spend countless hours trying to get to. I was convinced there was a secret way of getting to it, but I suspect the devs were just fucking with me.
It's too obscure a game to find anybody else who can relate. I still want to get there to this day.

[Anonymous No.5307935]

>>5307007
A hotline too.

[Anonymous No.5307945]

>>5306639
Is that the version you unlocked on GBC after beating the main levels?

[Anonymous No.5308027]

>>5306067
I had a hard time with it when I was a kid, but early 20s should be ez mode, at least for level 1.

[Anonymous No.5308036]

>>5306336
>>5306336
I don't necessarily blame them, they've been playing exclusively on laggy LCDs and games made to compensate for them.

>>5307945
That's probably what he means. It's SMB2 but slightly modified to work with SMB1 physics, and with no wind on the levels that formerly had it.

[Anonymous No.5308054]

>>5307007
The manual is important, it's not just a "Here are the controls", manuals were much more comprehensive due to multiple combinations of tech limits and poor design making even simple tasks very awkward in some games.

Do you think Dark Souls's difficulty is because the tutorial is "Here's the controls, go nuts"? It's not, it's because it's deliberately designed to reward bravery, but punish cowardice and recklessness, which was found throughout the NES era.

[Anonymous No.5308352]

>>5307007
Digital rereleases come with digital manuals, though. Wii had it, PS3 had it, 3DS had it, Wii U had an online manual you could access either on console or on PC, really good scans on that one. They also rereleased an HQ scan of the Earthbound Nintendo Power when they released said game.

[Anonymous No.5309031]

>>5306313
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1zhhd-JrqA&t=0s

[Anonymous No.5309304]

>>5306328
let's be honest, you shoot the door with a missile and it doesn't open
no one is going to think 'why not shoot it 4 more times'

also remember games actually came with manuals and you read them

[Anonymous No.5309307]

>>5307860
>didn't watch the video

[Anonymous No.5309314]

>>5302913
Yeah but that’s easier than using yoshi

[Anonymous No.5309425]

>>5309031
That was infuriating. I couldn't make it through his boasting about the newer games.

[Anonymous No.5309436]

>>5306328
I'd never played the game before on my first try at game, had similar questions but didn't give up and was quickly able to figure out without cheating.

[Anonymous No.5309441]

>>5307945
It's on the NES original. I don't know if it's on the All-Stars version or any other version.

[Anonymous No.5310734]

>>5309436
Yeah that's not hard at all. Plenty figured it out no problem.

[Anonymous No.5311192]

>-Zelda 1, imagine having the patience to bomb/candle every bush and wall in the game today without cheating.

That's bullshit dude, most of the secrets in Zelda 1 were there just so they could sell more Nintendo magazines and help line minutes. Also the game's manual has some top tips as well.