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The Hardest Retro Games You've Ever Played.

posted 6 years ago by Retromogul (1082)
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Among mine:

Ninja Gaiden (NES). Infuriatingly impossible to complete. Constantly respawning enemies placed in insidious locations, and if you die in the final levels you're made to complete them again.

Super Mario Bros 2 (The Lost Levels). (NES). Like a bad fan hack of the oringinal SMB - cheap and difficult. Endless trial and error platforming that I could never bother to complete.

Punch Out (NES). Never had the patience to beat Super Macho Man and reach the final fighter Mr Dream (or Mike Tyson depending on which version).

Super Empire Strikes Back (SNES). Nah forget it...

Zombies Ate My Neighbours (SNES). 50 something levels and I always ran out of items towards the end.

Mega Man (NES). Being overly difficult and short is not a good thing. This game was lucky to receive a sequel and spawn an endless franchise.

[–] somesunnyday (2078) 6 years ago

The end of Doom II is pretty tough to get through

[–] Wint3rFir3 (6931) 6 years ago

Nightmare on Elm Street PC game.
Clip of gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycWEdmklmDE

Back in my day (ha!) we had these things called floppy disks that sound far dirtier than they were - they were pretty boring tbh. Hence there was a Nightmare on Elm Street computer game that I never actually beat. Like I made it through a bunch of levels but Freddy got me in the end no matter what. I don't even know what the final level looked like or if I made it to this level because the internet wasn't a big thing when the game was out.

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

Are you talking about the Commodore 64 version? I can only vaguely remember playing that.

[–] Wint3rFir3 (6931) 6 years ago

Not sure. But I know you can still play online - here's a link:

https://classicreload.com/nightmare-on-elm-street.html

Just press Y to begin playing when it asks if you want to use the previous setup.