What's the Oldest Unbeaten Game You Own?

[Ascending Wordsmith]

While straightening up my gaming center, I ran across a few games that I haven't beaten. One of these is the NES title, The Adventures of Bayou Billy. No matter how hard I try, I can't beat that game. If I'm not getting the crap kicked out of me by enemies that eat my powerup turkey leg, then I'm getting ambushed by 12' long reptiles in the swamp. Thanks, Konami, for a game that no one can beat without writing a fictional novel about it.

What's the oldest, unbeaten game you own?

[Balloon Fight]

I am pretty pathetic, but i cant beat Space Ace for SNES. I hate that game with a passion. I can get to the 3rd level all the time, but then i freakin die always. Someday ill beat it, but most likely not soon.

[omnedon]

I can't beat my Atari Pong at handball.

[Raedon]

2600-Adventure

I was an INTV kid.






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Which is odd.. because I haven't got an INTV in my collection yet..

[chadtower]

No matter how hard I try I can't seem to beat Ed Sullivan for the Zenith. No matter what I try he always seems to come through with a "very good shoe".

[Zubiac666]

I guess "Ikari Warriors" for NES
but not cause it's too hard,NO, cause it suckkksssssssssssss
god,it suck soo bad.
*remembers the 2-pixels high soldiers in pink(!!) and blue pants.....*
*runs to toilet*
:bullshit:

[SpasticFuctard]

Adventures of Bayou Billy?

Now it was a looong time ago, but I vaguely remember beating that game. Didn't the end involve the game suddenly swtiching into a Vector graphics rendered ultrarealistic home family setting roughly akin to some sort of video nirvana?

No?

Then certainly it involved a cheap parody of Daisy Duke in her white and pink tied off belly shirt and a stolen motor scooter.

SF - I apologize to any Happy Wander Boys I may have offended. On second thought, no I don't.

[Darth Sensei]

Adventures of Bayou Billy?

Now it was a looong time ago, but I vaguely remember beating that game. Didn't the end involve the game suddenly swtiching into a Vector graphics rendered ultrarealistic home family setting roughly akin to some sort of video nirvana?

No?

Then certainly it involved a cheap parody of Daisy Duke in her white and pink tied off belly shirt and a stolen motor scooter.

SF - I apologize to any Happy Wander Boys I may have offended. On second thought, no I don't.

Ok, I just have to say it, that name is way cool. I just blew pop out my nose when I read it. Welcome Spastic.

D

[rbudrick]

Bayou Billy is a tough game...but definitely beatable. The key? Get real good at the driving and shooting scenes....

I beat that game in three days w/ no game genie or anything

-Rob

[Dr. Morbis]

Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom for NES. It's the only pre-collecting game I own and have not beat. It's that damn level 9 (or is it 10) where you have to make skulls stay afloat on the lava to build a bridge to the other side. Is it even possible? Has anyone here ever done it? I've spent so much time waiting for a skull to appear in the spot I need but it never does. Plus you need TNT to make them stay afloat and I always run out of it. I even tried to cheat using game genie but there is no code to start on the next level. If somebody out there knows how to beat this game, for the love of God please let me know! It's been haunting me since 1991!!!!!!

[anagrama]

I've never got round to finishing SNES Zelda. :embarrassed:

[bargora]

Happy Wander Boys
That's "Lucky". Yer goin' down, you spasticfuctard.

I have never finished Super Mario Bros. Or Pitfall.

[IGotTheDot]

E.T. Never beat it, never will.

[bensenvill]

Wasteland for the apple ][e. Absolutely my favorate game of all time. (sidenote.. if anyone has some input. I have the old PC version too but its totally unplayable. Something to do with it spawning millions of enemys probably because of processor speed). I may be doomed to never finishing that game.

For the 7800, Xevious, just frickn hard. And for the NES, marble madness (if there even is an end) is way too high on the frustration level.

~tj

[NE146]

E.T. Never beat it, never will.

Play game 3 ;)

As for me... hmmm. I'm sure there are lots of 2600 titles (Solaris) that I haven't beaten. But the one title that stands out in my mind as one I had WANTED to beat but never could was probably... Actraiser 2! Lordy that was such a dissapointment :( ... and way too difficult as well

[GaijinPunch]

I remember Indiana Jones for the NES... never beat it, but got damn close.

Some games I've never beaten, but tried:
Record of Lodoss War (DC) - even cheated, and still couldn't get through it. It's long.
Popful Mail MegaCD - never got around to finishing it
Startling Odyssey - Turbo Duo. Got to the end, but will never finish it. Long story.

[MoreEbolaForYou]

marble madness for the nes? there's only maybe 6-7 levels on it. i used to beat it every day after work..it takes literally about 5 minutes to go through the entire game. so fun...

[chadtower]

i used to beat it every day after work..it takes literally about 5 minutes. so fun...

:hmm:

[GrandAmChandler]

Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom for NES. It's the only pre-collecting game I own and have not beat. It's that damn level 9 (or is it 10) where you have to make skulls stay afloat on the lava to build a bridge to the other side. Is it even possible? Has anyone here ever done it? I've spent so much time waiting for a skull to appear in the spot I need but it never does. Plus you need TNT to make them stay afloat and I always run out of it. I even tried to cheat using game genie but there is no code to start on the next level. If somebody out there knows how to beat this game, for the love of God please let me know! It's been haunting me since 1991!!!!!!

I have warped, and have gotten damn close to beating it. it really is a tough game, but addicting.

[le geek]

2600 Pitfall

Cheers,
Ben

[jaydubnb]

I'm sad to say it, as it's one of my all time favorite games, but I've never beaten Outrun. the final level always tosses me for a loop...

[WiseSalesman]

Final Fantasy. The first one, for NES. I have a policy against levelling up because I feel it takes the challenge out of a game, yet, ironically, it is because of this exact policy that I can't seem to defeat Kraken.

[Sniderman]

RE2 - Claire's mission. As much as I love the game series, I finished Leon's mission, began her's and got kinda bored with playing the whole thing again. One day, I'll finish up her game and see all the other stuff. But, for now, no thanks.

[Ed Oscuro]

Bah, today I got my Atari 2600 and 14 carts with it, so I'd have to go with one of those games (though most of 'em you can't "beat" anyways ;0)

[Sotenga]

It used to be Fester's Quest for me. USED to be, that is. Booyah. 8-)

I've never beaten Temple of Doom on the NES myself... that's the oldest one I can think of. I'll check my NES collection later.

[spoon]

Happy Wander Boys
That's "Lucky". Yer goin' down, you spasticfuctard.

I have never finished Super Mario Bros. Or Pitfall.

I thought I was the only one who hadn't beat Super Mario Bros. Now I don't feel so bad. Thanks Bargora

[rbudrick]

I used to beat ET all the time when I was like 4 years old.....I still think it's a good game <braces for lightening bolts from God>.

I never legitimately beat Mike Tyson's Punch Out I got like 1 punch from a decision count about 1208305t8094 times and I knocked him down twice in a round 438467247 times (with one punch left for tko 209450 times).

Fuck Mike. That rapist, no good, wife-beating fuck.

-Rob

[RetroYoungen]

I've never got round to finishing SNES Zelda. :embarrassed:

Ahh, don't worry. Neither have I. :D

My oldest game I've never beaten was the first one I ever bought on my own: The Adventures of Rockey and Bullwinkle, NES. That was so hard back in the day, and I still can't get through it today.

And it took my like 11 years to get through SMB (started it when I was two, beat it at 13), so I feel you guys.

[whoisKeel]

this game called Star Voyager for nes. i think it was the second video game i owned (after mario/duckhunt). i still do not understand how to beat this game. i've read the faqs. even e-mailed the guy who wrote the faq. i just can't beat this game.

anything else i haven't beaten is mostly laziness or disinterest.

[sabre2922]

All of my classic Mega man games, but then again I dont have an NES anymore, maybe someday.

[hu6800]

JB Herold Murder club TG16 Cdrom

I got to the end, and for some reason i never beat it / solved it

[slip81]

super mario bros. for NES is the oldest game i currently have and sadly, i still have not beaten it

[slip81]

super mario bros. for NES is the oldest game i currently have and sadly, i still have not beaten it

[tynstar]

I have hardly played any of my Atari 2600 games let alone bet them.

[tynstar]

I have hardly played any of my Atari 2600 games let alone bet them.

[adaml]

Star Voyager is hard, even when you figure out what to do.

Trying to figure out how to fly the helicopter in Infiltrator is maddening. Luckily there is a game guide for Infiltrator in one of Zach Meston's NES tip books.

I think there are 4 levels in Marble Madness...though there could be 5. It's been awhile.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom just got a nice FAQ written for it earlier this year. Pretty much explains everything. The Tengen and Mindscape versions are identical.

[adaml]

Star Voyager is hard, even when you figure out what to do.

Trying to figure out how to fly the helicopter in Infiltrator is maddening. Luckily there is a game guide for Infiltrator in one of Zach Meston's NES tip books.

I think there are 4 levels in Marble Madness...though there could be 5. It's been awhile.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom just got a nice FAQ written for it earlier this year. Pretty much explains everything. The Tengen and Mindscape versions are identical.

[gamergary]

River Raid and the rest of my 2600 games (except for adventure) are the oldest and unbeaten games that I currently own.

[atomicthumbs]

There are ends to Fairchild and 2600 games?!? HOLY CRAP!!!


http://atomicthumbs.freehosting.net/pong2.gif
That and this game (though someone beat me to the joke)

Here's something strange though. One of the PONG systems I have is called a Bentley Compu-Vision. I looked at the paperwork that came with it and it's dated 1983... Why the HELL was a PONG SYSTEM released in 198-frickin-3?!? It's not even a color system! Just a standard one with 4 game variations!!!

For Christ's sake, Japanese kids were playing on their Famicoms in 1983!!!

[Dr. Morbis]

Here's something strange though. One of the PONG systems I have is called a Bentley Compu-Vision. I looked at the paperwork that came with it and it's dated 1983... Why the HELL was a PONG SYSTEM released in 198-frickin-3?!? It's not even a color system! Just a standard one with 4 game variations!!!

I have a complete Bentley Compu-vision as well, and I remember thinking the exact same thing: 1983! Wha?!? I think their counter-argument is thus (quoting the outside of the box):

"A self contained system requiring no additional cartridges or expense."

It's also good marketing to cheap parents who think that they will never have to buy another game for little Johnny.

[atomicthumbs]

"A self contained system requiring no additional cartridges or expense."

It's also good marketing to cheap parents who think that they will never have to buy another game for little Johnny.

I KNOW!
the bastards...

[pango]

Eye of the Beholder for SNES...I doubt I'll ever even open that game. Why? Dunno...I've just never gotton around to playing it.

[atomicthumbs]

Eye of the Beholder for SNES...I doubt I'll ever even open that game. Why? Dunno...I've just never gotton around to playing it.

I lent my copy of that game to some chick about five years ago.... I've never gotten it back.

[KirbyStar27]

Kirby pinball land for the original game boy, or kirby's adventure, because i dont have an NES! :(

[Kejoriv]

Super Mario Bros 2. I have beaten prob around 20 or so Nes games. I grew up with Nes. I cannot beat this game. There has to be something that I am doing wrong. I get to this one part, where I dont know where to go and I eventually die. I just give up all the time at that certain part. One day I will beat it though. :)

~Kejoriv

[NintendoMan]

For me, on the NES:
Metal Gear
Bionic Commando
Castlevania 1

SNES:
Super Ghouls N Ghosts

I am going to play super ghouls today and try and beat it, maybe, for some reason that game is hard for me? :(

[Sand_monkey]

Off the top of my head I would say:

Monty on the run (C64)

[jezt]

Deadly towers, for the nes. I keep forgetting my passwords.

[DigitalSpace]

Eye of the Beholder for SNES...I doubt I'll ever even open that game. Why? Dunno...I've just never gotton around to playing it.

I lent my copy of that game to some chick about five years ago.... I've never gotten it back.

She was doing you a favor... that game sucked.

I still haven't beat the first Zelda... someday.

[DigitalSpace]

Eye of the Beholder for SNES...I doubt I'll ever even open that game. Why? Dunno...I've just never gotton around to playing it.

I lent my copy of that game to some chick about five years ago.... I've never gotten it back.

She was doing you a favor... that game sucked. LOL

I still haven't beat the first Zelda... someday.

[DigitalSpace]

Fuck, I hate that you can't edit these classic discussions. :angry:

[Jorpho]

I still have Final Fantasy Legend II on hand. I stopped playing some time ago when I was partway through the Nasty Dungeon. I decided that I was probably going to have to start over, since I accidently erased my male mutant's Blizzard spell early in the game, and it seems to be quite important at that stage.

[SirDrexl]

I never legitimately beat Mike Tyson's Punch Out I got like 1 punch from a decision count about 1208305t8094 times and I knocked him down twice in a round 438467247 times (with one punch left for tko 209450 times).

I've never done it either. I could beat him with the code that took you right to him, but never legitimately, where you have to beat Super Macho Man first.

[macabre26]

Oldest un-beaten game, eh? Well pre collecting days, I'd say Street Fighter 2010... I've gone back and beaten almost all of the games that as a kid I thought were impossible, Mega Man 3 became a 45 minute excursion for example, but street Fighter 2010 for the nes seems to be impossible if you die anyhwere in the last level, cuz you don't have enough power ups when you restart to kill the boss...
post collecting I have hundreds of games tht I haven't beaten, but E.T. comes to mind...

[briskbc]

I have 2 answers for this question. I started collecting back in 1998. At that point I was starting from scratch. I kept none of the of systems from my youth. So my first answer is from is the game I've had in my collection since then. I have sold most of my collection over and over for financial reasons but I kept G-Police the whole time. What a great game, despite the draw in problem. This is the game I've owned the longest that I haven't finished

The second answer is Master Blaster. I was never able tofinish it in high school. Technically it is the oldest game I own that I have actually failed to finish. I don't really count the old Atari games I don't even play.

[Jared_Vibelicious]

ok wow! i thought i was the only person who played / had not beat JB Herold Murder club TG16 Cdrom! lol I'd also have to add to my list Kid Chameleon for Genesis and Cottom for the Turbo Duo.

[Jared_Vibelicious]

ok wow! i thought i was the only person who played / had not beat JB Herold Murder club TG16 Cdrom! lol I'd also have to add to my list Kid Chameleon for Genesis and Cotton for the Turbo Duo.

[tom]

Cat & Mouse on Magnavox Odyssey (1972). just never played it.

also:

Bridge on VCS (Activision). Bought it, booted it, looked at it, packed it up!

[LiquidX01]

Super Mario Bros NES. LOL

Seriously, Zelda's The ocarina of time(N64).

I kinda lost interest really late into the game and have not picked it up since.

Pretty sad really... :o

[BloodshedPlague]

My oldest is Brave Fence Musashi, Not because I can't just because I haven't had the time.

[Sibs]

Mine would probably be Zelda II. I never got into the game as much as I did with the original.

[little arms]

Ghosts n Goblins---nes--i got to the last guy(with the level skip) and still couldnt beat him--i hate the game and also rush n attack its too hard for me--plus both games have "n" in the title sweeet huh

[marshalldylan1]

Mine would probably be Zelda II. I never got into the game as much as I did with the original.

Same here, I just can't enjoy it like I did with the original.

[dethink]

super mario bros. 2 (US version).

i have no love for that bastard son of the SMB series.

[QBert]

River Raid and the rest of my 2600 games (except for adventure) are the oldest and unbeaten games that I currently own.

Hey. me too! Although I have been playing Pitfall lately, maybe that'll be my second 2600 game to beat.



Qbert

[Berserker]

Double Dragon 3.

A POX ON THIS GAME, AND ALL WHO HAD A HAND IN IT'S CREATION!

that is all.

[digbug]

-_- I don't finish many games but Wasteland is one of the few games i finished on th C64 . At the time there was a lot of Buzz about this game. It was a fun game and had some kool puzzles.As i remember it wasn't too hard. Just a lot of searching the buildings and a few puzzles and some fighting.Myabe 25- 40 hours tops, as i remember it sooo long ago.Maybe 1988 or 1989.First time i used an UZI in a game!
Best wishes,
Lawrence

But what about my courage?" asked the Lion, anxiously. "You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty." "Perhaps I have, but I’m scared just the same," said the Lion. "I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid."

[Ruffie]

Well, I consider few Atari VCS games as "beatable". Someone mentioned Pitfall, and I never considered it beatable until now. I guess getting all the items in under 20 minutes would be beating it.

Other Atari games I never beat include Riddle of the Sphinx, Swordquest Earthworld and Fireworld (they sucked).

After that, there's a huge backlog of Commodore 64 adventures I never finished. I still have the C64, disks, games, and files full of notes and maps for those games. Some I am very close on and still boot up and work on from time to time. Bard's Tale 1-3, Ultima II - V, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Questron, the Shard of Spring, and so on.

With those, I got close to the end about the time the next one came along. Some of them, like Bard's Tale, are so good that I almost hate to finish them, like a fine bottle of wine with only a few sips left.

In summary, the list of games I never finished is longer than the list of ones I did finish. Hopefully I'll live forever and have time to go back and finish them all.

Ruffie

[TEXASGAMEPLAYER]

SILPHEED for the sega cd. Impossible I tell you!!!

[The Great Dane]

I would also have to say Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. GREAT game. I love it a lot. But it is very hard. I have made it to the final level (or what I think is the final level)and it seemed near impossible. The level is where you have to find the three shankara stones and take them somewhere. Well, the stones are all in a different place and each is surrounded by lava, so you have to make a bridge to make it to each one. But, to make it even more challenging, if you get touched by an enemy you drop the stones that you are carrying and you have to go back to where they are and repeat the process again. Very frustrating game, but for sure one of my favorites.

[Dr. Morbis]

I would also have to say Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. GREAT game. I love it a lot. But it is very hard. I have made it to the final level (or what I think is the final level)and it seemed near impossible. The level is where you have to find the three shankara stones and take them somewhere. Well, the stones are all in a different place and each is surrounded by lava, so you have to make a bridge to make it to each one. But, to make it even more challenging, if you get touched by an enemy you drop the stones that you are carrying and you have to go back to where they are and repeat the process again. Very frustrating game, but for sure one of my favorites.
That's not the last level, it's only level 10 (of 12). Level 10 is impossible without the map on gamefaqs.

I also posted this as my unbeaten game a long time ago in this thread. However, with some perserverance, and a gamefaqs walkthrough, I was finally able to beat it in one game.

[The Great Dane]

I would also have to say Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. GREAT game. I love it a lot. But it is very hard. I have made it to the final level (or what I think is the final level)and it seemed near impossible. The level is where you have to find the three shankara stones and take them somewhere. Well, the stones are all in a different place and each is surrounded by lava, so you have to make a bridge to make it to each one. But, to make it even more challenging, if you get touched by an enemy you drop the stones that you are carrying and you have to go back to where they are and repeat the process again. Very frustrating game, but for sure one of my favorites.
That's not the last level, it's only level 10 (of 12). Level 10 is impossible without the map on gamefaqs.

I also posted this as my unbeaten game a long time ago in this thread. However, with some perserverance, and a gamefaqs walkthrough, I was finally able to beat it in one game.

Yeah, I had found the map on gamefaqs as well, but still couldn't quite beat that level.

[-hellvin-]

Mine would probably be Zelda II. I never got into the game as much as I did with the original.

Same here, I just can't enjoy it like I did with the original.

Hmmm, this took me forever to beat. The last dungeon is really weird, with disappearing floors and random traps.

But for me the oldest game I have that I have NEVER beatne is The Caverns Of Khefka for the atari 800xl. I played this so many times when I was a kid and could never figure out WTF you are supposed to do!? Does anyone know? I kinda just run around and grab the idols then get stuck at a dead end.

[KariageKun]

How about Lester the Unlikely for SNES. You can't beat that game. You must die at the big (indian?) statue that spits something at you at any direction.

Even with cheat, I would still be killed.

Cheating developer caught