/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.967681]

What's the hardest retro game ever?

[Anonymous No.967686]

inb4 Tower of Druaga, Wizardry IV

[Anonymous No.967690]

Wizardry IV

[Anonymous No.967691]

Barney's Hide and Seek

[Anonymous No.967692]

Not Ghosts and Goblins

[Anonymous No.967706]

Wizards & Warriors

[Anonymous No.967710]

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

[Anonymous No.967779]

Dragon's Lair on NES

[Anonymous No.967784]

adventure island gets RIDICULOUSLY hard at the end. i doubt ill ever beat it.

but id say silver surfer

[Anonymous No.967787]

easy

ET

literally unbeatable

[Anonymous No.967808]

8-2 and 8-3 in AI are definitely two of the hardest levels

[Anonymous No.967815]

AI is pretty same-samey for the entire game, and then you meet brick wall 8-3. Absolutely unreasonable, and then you make it to the final "staircase". I was barely able to do it with save states, and it took me at least an hour. I don't know anyone is expected to do it on their own on an actual cart... Has anyone ever been documented, verified, finishing it legitimate?

[Anonymous No.967819]

>>967815
It's not that bad if you find that easter egg that lets you restart at the farthest level you died at.

[Anonymous No.967823]

>>967815
>Has anyone ever been documented, verified, finishing it legitimate?

I saw my friend do it about 25 years ago.

[Anonymous No.967830]

>>967787
ET is really pretty easy, once you get the hang of it. It's very, very beatable.

[Anonymous No.967840]

>>967823
one of the GCCX ADs did it.
>Should such a game be allowed to exist in this world?

[Anonymous No.967845]

Arcade Gradius III

[Anonymous No.967849]

>>967819
no, its really that bad. you'll be re-doing it over and over and over and over and over again. like >>967815 said, its a brick wall

[Anonymous No.967859]

>>967849

Just watched it on youtube. That last section is just plain cruel.

[Anonymous No.967972]

>>967815
I'm pretty sure there's a speed run of AI up at SDA

[Anonymous No.968141]

>>967830
I beat it when I was a child on an actual atari when it was released. Wasn't difficult at all.

[Anonymous No.968146]

The original Ninja Gaiden trilogy.

[Anonymous No.968156]

battletoads

[Anonymous No.968160]

>>968146
I beat them when I was a kid, I definitely wouldn't consider them the most difficult. Tedious definitely, once you've mostly got down the level patterns and general tactics it's not so bad.

[Anonymous No.968169]

>>968146
6-2 and that boss gauntlet in the first one, oh my god.

Don't know how I ever beat that shit.

[Anonymous No.968187]

Don't know about the #1, but I can give a list of NES games.

Ninja Gaiden series
Dragon's Lair
Adventure Island series
Castlevania 3
Silver Surfer
Battletoads

Some I remember as being hard, but I don't know if I just sucked or not.

Dirty Harry
The Lone Ranger
Startropics
Solar Jetman
Mega Man
Little Nemo the Dream Master
Darkwing Duck

[Anonymous No.968651]

At the beginning of the credits, it's exactly like this (only centered):

SUPER HARD SHOOTING GAME
- RECCA -

[Anonymous No.969052]

Takeshi's Challenge.
Nothing else posted so far (besides maybe AI) comes close.

[Anonymous No.969069]

>>967681
Captain Blood on Atari St.

[Anonymous No.969082]

>>967815
What fucking game are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.969106]

>>969082
OP's, Adventure Island.

My vote goes to any of the couple hundred space shooters out there. I admit I'm terrible at the genre, but even so, there are some merciless games out there that basically require a 1cc.

[Anonymous No.969204]

hardest one I ever played was "Rad Gravity."

[Anonymous No.970804]

Earth Worm Jim on Gameboy

[Anonymous No.970819]

>>967840
Urakawa, and it took him 28 hours of nonstop play to accomplish it.

AI is just absolutely ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.971753]

Sutte Hakkun. I do not know of anyone who has beat the game 100%.
Up until World 10 the levels are very hard, but world 11, aka the developer levels are... just.. mind-fuckingly hard.
The game even gives you save states once you reach the dev levels. It's like they knew you're gonna get fucked. Some guy on nicovideo beat only 5 levels of the last world, but that was about a year ago. Dunno if he beat it eventually.

[Anonymous No.971839]

Bill and Ted for NES.

/thread

[Anonymous No.971854]

>>971753
Could you pass a link, I'm curious to see what this looks like.

[Anonymous No.971863]

>>967686
>>967690
Well shit.
Yeah Wizardry IV & Tower of Druaga, there's no way around it.

[Anonymous No.971872]

>>970804
>Earth Worm Jim on Gameboy
I beat it as a kid, but I remember grinding it out so many times and failing. I doubt I'd be able to beat it now though.

[Anonymous No.971883]

>>971753
link to what? the game, the videos, what?

[Anonymous No.971887]

>>971883
>>971854
oops meant this one

[Anonymous No.972440]

>>971753
I know some super autistic or OCD (literally, and this doesn't include myself, although I am.)

I imagine SOMEONE has, but it goes unremarked upon because they don't/didn't speak with people a lot, or if they do, no one cares that weird Eddie who lives in a trailer with his cats beat some game and constantly talks about it.

[Anonymous No.974152]

>>972440
seriously? ask the fag how the game ends
i don't believe you

[Anonymous No.974207]

something on the arcade

NES games are kiddy stuff compared to arcade games

[Anonymous No.974210]

>>967784
have you like ever played a shmup before or do you just repeat AVGN?

silver surfer is about as difficult as any other shmup on the NES

[Anonymous No.974253]

That train level in Little Nemo was a nightmare

[Anonymous No.974482]

>>974253
>little nemo
>nightmare

heh

[Anonymous No.974498]

>>967972
What's the difference between Adventure Island and Wonderboy?

[Anonymous No.974507]

Try beating Chips Challenge without looking up the solutions for the levels. There's so much fake difficulty with invisible walls and trial and error (some blocks contain instant death fire under them and there's no way to know beforehand) that it can get downright sadistic.

[Anonymous No.974508]

>>974498
The music and a few sprites

[Anonymous No.974510]

>>974507
>On the rocks
That level
That bullshit
Holy shit I hated that level with passion.

[Anonymous No.974509]

>>974253
>The train level
>Not the last one
>Not basically the literal nightmare

[Anonymous No.974525]

>>974510
Basically "I hope you like filling in water tiles with block generators for hours on end", the level.

and god forbid mis-stepping on ice and falling into the water.

I made that mistake once, and I ended up staring at the 'Oops! Chip can't swim without flippers!" message for a good 5 minutes in a tranquil fury.

[Anonymous No.974532]

>>974508
Ah okay, I'm happy to say that I did finish the Wonderboy version back when I was younger. Some brutal sections from what I remember though.

[Anonymous No.974540]

>>974507
>>974510
>>974525
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N32ZTPtD9AM
Bummer

[Anonymous No.974606]

>>967681

I can't give you an objective answer for hardest, but among the most difficult I've played are...

Adventure Island
Journey to Silius
Ghosts and Goblins
Tower of Druaga (early curve before getting the boots and one or two other items can be torture)
Abadox (FUCK THAT SECOND LEVEL)
Challenger (on a higher difficulty)
Final Fantasy (slow as fuck, enemies that can wipe out your party from time to time if their deadly magic hits, etc)
R.C. Pro Am II (good luck trying to get 1st every time!)
Battletoads (fucking duh)
Kid Icarus (pinpoint precision platforming. Even if you get health upgrades from grinding like crazy for points, if you die once you restart with only one section of your life filled of your max)

And those are just NES/Famicom titles. I'm sure there are plenty more that are fucking nerve-wracking.

[Anonymous No.974695]

I, uh... Wonder Boy was bretty hard

[Anonymous No.974712]

Deadly Towers - mostly cause of how fucking bugged the game was

[Anonymous No.974760]

Ive never met or spoke to anyone thats completed Jungle Book for snes

[Anonymous No.974773]

>>967681
Rocket Knight Adventures on hard mode.

[Anonymous No.974780]

The original Zelda's second quest. Kicks my ass everytime.

[Anonymous No.974782]

>>974253
>>968187

I don't know, Little Nemo wasn't that hard. Especially for a Capcom game.

The Train was annoying, sure. Also that house-level.

And the last one was pretty mean, especially because you had to replay that stupid forest and it's boss every time you got a game over.

But it was more than doable, and the Nightmare King was easy for the last bossu.

>Pic related is one of the hardest games in my opinion

[Anonymous No.975883]

Not the hardest or comparable to what other people post but damn, it's close. The final level before facing the boss in Picture City and the final level in Eat at Joes are ASS.

[Anonymous No.976013]

Jim power

[Anonymous No.976045]

legacy of the wizard
wizards and warriors 1

[Anonymous No.976048]

>>975883
You forget to mention that ALL the cages must be freed to unlock the last final level. Doing that is also quite hard, because you have to look at some obscure and dangerous spots.

[Anonymous No.976051]

>>967692
If this version counts, it definetly is among them. I can beat both rounds on NES without dying once, but the arcade version will kick my ass any day.

>Less extra armor spawning
>Extra lives only attainable through high score
>Red Areemers actively avoid your projectiles, making them extremely hard to hit, the reverse jump-fire backwards tactic is much less viable. Forces you to bait them if possible, and always keep an eye out for their movement for an opening to attack
>Smaller enemies are faster and spawns more frequently, making them harder to avoid and kill
>Projectiles are often faster and bigger, making them harder to avoid
>Bosses are generally more agressive towards you, rather than following specific, braindead patterns and letting you blow your load right in their faces
>Eyeball platforms on level 4 will knock you off
>Level 5 have Forest Ghosts and Blue Demons spawning all throughout the level, rather than just the basement
>The Satan boss attacks are near undodgeable, changing the fight completely
>2 Cyclops/Unicorns at start of level 6, not one.

[Anonymous No.976139]

>>967787
Wat

[Anonymous No.976316]

>>975883
I still cant complete it.

[Anonymous No.976329]

>>976051
im willing to bet that no one on this board has 1cc'ed the arcade version of ghosts n goblins

[Anonymous No.976336]

did anyone here 101% donkey kong 64?
even getting all the colored bananas

[Anonymous No.976406]

>>967681
Ridge Racer 64.

Sure, it's all easy and shit at first. Then after you start the post game (yep, an arcade racer with a fucking post game) it starts raping your anus. Just 'cause it can.

Often times, you have to have an absolutely perfect run, or you'll lose. and That's on the first set of "extra" stages. It only gets harder after that. And don't get me started on those goddamned car attack stages...

On top of this, AI cars don't perform the same as they would in a player's hands. They all get better and better as the game progresses. So you can't rely on just driving a "better" car to help you win most of the time.

And even unlocking the secret cars is insane at times. Like one where you have to get a perfect score on a Galaga minigame, and one where you have to down a fucking helicopter with your car...

I know some people don't see the "challenge" in racing games, but play this one (or F-Zero X and F-Zero GX for that matter) and you fucking will. I guarantee it.

[Anonymous No.976427]

>>971753
Oh god Sutte Hakkun, it's so good and so damn brutal at the end.

I remember when people raced it blind on SRL, took them like up to 5 hours to beat 10 stages.

Holy Diver is pretty darn brutal, like Castlevania times 10.

[Anonymous No.976435]

Wasn't there a Golgo 13 game on the NES that only like a dozen people have finished legitimately

[Anonymous No.976443]

Have fun finding your way around this game without a map

[Anonymous No.976450]

>>976443

This looks so awesome, are the controls responsive?

[Emmanuel Diaz No.976460]

I would say NINJA GAIDEN for the NES but I think the hardest retro game I ever played was FRIDAY THE 13TH for the NES

[Anonymous No.976536]

I'm sure some people here will say they did it, but I've never been able to beat any of the metal slug games without hundreds of credits.

[Anonymous No.976872]

I don't know how I missed this one the first time around.

Gauntlet for the NES. It has to be the NES version. The NES version is special, since it has 100 set levels, and actually does have an ending.

In order to beat the NES version of Gauntlet, you need to access EVERY secret level in order to get every part of the vault code you need to access the final level. If you miss one, you will be forced to guess what letter/number it was, and if you get it wrong you will game over instantly as soon as the final level starts. You can't save, you can't put in more credits for more health, and many of the levels towards the end of the game are full of exits that will lead you in level loops, back to earlier levels, or back to the start of the level you were just on, all the while your health is ticking down.

I've seen the ending and the last 21 or so levels with the help of a password with a known vault code and some cheats, but I doubt ANYONE has ever beaten the NES version of Gauntlet legitimately. I'd be impressed if anyone managed to make it halfway through the game without cheating.

[Anonymous No.976893]

[Anonymous No.976919]

>>976872
the actual combat in gauntlet isnt very hard
as for the maze, that just requires writing it out on paper and doing some process of elimation

wizardry games also had that

[Nigger No.976930]

>>976443
What game is this?

[Anonymous No.976935]

>>976930

Dragon Slayer 4

[Anonymous No.976937]

>>976443
>that game without a map and knowing what to do beforehand
oh god no

[Anonymous No.976945]

>>976450
Legacy of the Wizard. It is pretty cool, but most of it is way more linear than it looks. Most of the challenge comes from finding the items and using them in puzzles.

To compare, twelve year old me was able to beat this game without making a map but never beat Back to the Future 2&3 despite trying to map it out.

The fact that BttF was boring as watching paint spontaneously generate probably led me to give up sooner though.

[Anonymous No.976948]

>>976930
>>976935

or "legacy of the wizard," if you're an english speaking person.

[Anonymous No.976960]

>>974210
I don't know. The hitbox is really difficult to deal with-- in general I think that the sprite of the surfer needs to be shrunken down. I had an easier time playing Gradius,for example, because the hitbox and the game mechanics in general were so refined that whenever you died you felt like it was your own fault, not that it was a cruel game.

It's the difference between screaming "Damnit!" at yourself in frustration, and "fuck you!" in frustration to the tv

[Anonymous No.976961]

>>976443
I remember that game!

Never played for more then an hour as a kid before giving up!

[Anonymous No.976976]

>>976919
Yeah, but good luck getting every single secret room. That and mapping out the maze while health is constantly on the decline. You will be playing from the start hundreds if not thousands of times trying to get it right.

I've also heard it's even worse for a full party of 4 since you have to share the power-ups that you need for late game survival, but I've never been able to get three people together who were interested in playing through all 100 levels of Gauntlet with me.

Just having to do it all in one sitting(since passwords don't save keys, potions, or power-ups) is enough challenge alone. Granted, you could save state your way through, but I still don't think many people if anyone has ever managed to beat this game legit.

[Anonymous No.977004]

>>967681
THIS!

[Anonymous No.977028]

>>977004
Pretty fuckin easy are you new to platform games?

[Anonymous No.977035]

>>977028
but Mario can't make the jump?

he's too short anon!

[Anonymous No.977078]

>>976976
here is why maze/puzzle games are inheritably easier than action games

if you were to watch an advanced player of gauntlet (or another maze game) than that game is ALOT easier

but if you watch a game-play of an action game it gets a little easier but its still hard

as far as mazes though gauntlet is very difficult though

[Anonymous No.977089]

>>968651
This guy knows what's up,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE5URFvZfHo

[Anonymous No.977090]

>>ctrl f
>>contra
>>0 matches

Fuck this shitty board in its fucking face with a piece of glass.

[Anonymous No.977101]

>>977090

Probably because Contra isn't the hardest retro game, not by a long shot.

[Anonymous No.977102]

>>977101
Contra is not even that hard if you play a lot of side scrolling shooters. It is challenging at times but it is no where near as hard as people make it out to be.

[Anonymous No.977107]

>>967681
Tetris
You can't win.

[Anonymous No.977486]

>>977107
Shit son, most games just barely before that era one were unwinnable. The Asteroids will eventually obliterate you, the Space Invaders will always kill you and take your planet, and poor Q*bert will either get chomped by a baddie or suicide leap off the pyramid.

[Anonymous No.977496]

>>977486
At least in Donkey Kong you rescued Pauline. The game just looped for that thing called "score" which people used to care about.

I was going to say you "won" Pac-Man too because of the cut scenes where he meets the Ms. and reproduces and all but I guess none of that implies the constant ratrace ever stops. Oh god there's a metaphor in there somewhere huh. A very Japanese metaphor.

[Anonymous No.977602]

>>977496
The rat race stops when Pac-Man strokes out after 255 screens.

...A twisted metaphor indeed.

[Anonymous No.977780]

>>967815

Arino's AD completed it.

[Anonymous No.977804]

Gimmick

[Anonymous No.977807]

>>967784
i beat it once.

And I'm terrible at shooters. It's not that bad