What's the game you are most ashamed to say you've never beaten?

[jcalder8]

Well I finished SMB the other day all the way through with no warps so I now need to come up with a new game, so FF III and VII now share my top spot.

[guitargary75]

Metal Storm. I've always wanted to, just have never found the time. By the way, edit your post because it confused the hell out of me until I read it.

[jcalder8]

By the way, edit your post because it confused the hell out of me until I read it.

Thanks for the heads up, its corrected now

[Blitzwing256]

nes gauntlet, no matter how much I try I just can't seem to finish it, I can get up to the 3 headed dragon but even without taking a hit my health counts down to nothing and i can barely knock off one head!

the other is nes double dragon, I can beat the prototype version but machine gun willy is just so cheap one slighly badly placed anything and you're dead and its back to fighitng abobo again.

[diskoboy]

The very first Phantasy Star.

[FlufflePuff]

Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy 7

[boatofcar]

nes gauntlet, no matter how much I try I just can't seem to finish it, I can get up to the 3 headed dragon but even without taking a hit my health counts down to nothing and i can barely knock off one head!

Woah. It never occurred to me Gauntlet had an ending!

[Maxx]

Embarasingly enough... SMB.

[Push Upstairs]

I beat SMB once, but that is because I enjoyed playing SMB3 more.

I guess I could say "Pro Wrestling" but I get bored with it more than unable to complete it.

[fahlim003]

Another Super Mario Bros. over here.
I back when I was a kid I wasn't very good at games. Then again, I mostly only played for fun, that's what counts.

Also haven't beat SMB2 or 3 either. SMW and SMW2:YI I have beat though.

[spoon]

I'm ashamed to say that I have never beaten SMB. I have tried a few times but I've also never really sat down and put the effort in.

So how about everyone else? What is your dirty little secret game that you've never beaten?

Dude, I was the same way. I finally beat this game 3 years back. I was 22. I took a picture of the end screen.

I have yet to beat Super Mario Sunshine. I can do it anytime, but, I am trying to get all the Shines. That is gonna be a tough feat. I get on a roll and knock out 10 or so every other month, I have almost 90 some.

[Sothy]

Portal

I even heard the ending song... just havent gotten back to it.

[MrSparkle]

yet another count for smb i can get up to 8-3 every time and thats it

<edit> a few days ago me and my friend sat down determined to beat super mario and we finally did, and whats more after beating it the first time we then resolved to beat the second quest which we did as well

[evil_genius]

I never beat a Final Fantasy game or. But I am most ashamed to say I have not beaten Zelda 2.

[Nebagram]

SMB, 8-2 this time.

I've 100%ed SMW (96 exits), SM64 (120 stars, 150 on DS), Sunshine (120 shines) AND Galaxy (120 stars, okay, but only with Mario) but I can never crack the original.

[phreak97]

yeah, smb, and i've played it for countless hours too.
also zelda: link to the past.. but thats cos the battery in the cart went flat:P

[XYXZYZ]

I was ashamed of never saving the princess in SMB for the longest time, but I finally did it... I don't remember exactly when, I think it was after the SNES came out.

The only other gaming shames I've had since were not finishing Contra or Life Force without the 30 lives code, but I've cleared those up in the past couple years by 1CC-ing Contra with 3 lives and finishing Life Force without even dying.

Then there are games that I have finished in the past, but can't any more- Ninja Turtles, (That one corridor with the laser soldiers always gets me) Ninja Gaiden (I can't keep up with Jaquio's patterns) and Blaster Master is too goddamn long.

[psychic1]

I have a grand list of shame!

1) The only Zelda game I've ever finished was Ocarina of Time.
2) Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!(this is actually my favorite NES game after RCR so its even more pathetic I haven't beat it)
3) I've never beat any Mega Man game before.
4) I never beat any Castlevania up until SotN.
5) I've never beat any Metroid game before.
6) Snatcher(I am a huge Cyberpunk fan and Metal Gear fan too, so this is like my #1 game to beat right now)
7) StarCraft(in fact, i've never beat any RTS game before)
8) I've never beat any Sonic game before even though I own and have played nearly every one.
9) The only Mario game I've ever beat was not made by Nintendo.
10) Half-Life(I didn't beat this because I felt it was very mediocre)
11) The only Dragon Warrior I beat was 7(and I spent around 350 hours with it).
12) X-COM: UFO Defense(I've been meaning to play this for years)
13) Radiant Silvergun(shmups are one of my least favorite genres but that isnt any excuse to have never even tried what is typically considered the best of the bunch).
14) Never even played a Star Control before and I totally dig those kinds of games.
15) The only Phantasy Star I beat was 4.
16) Never played FreeSpace 2(same answer as Radiant Silvergun)
17) I've never even played any Civilization game before.
18) I've only beat one of LucasArts epic graphical adventures(Maniac Mansion).
19) System Shock 2(pretty close to the same answer as Snatcher, I desperately want to play this but can't find it).
20) I own every Contra game ever and never beat any of them(they are just too fucking hard!).

Phew, I think thats everything. Aside from those I beat every other game thats considered "great" or "classic". So overall I'm pretty accomplished but that list still looks bad.

[Iron Draggon]

Woah. It never occurred to me Gauntlet had an ending!

does the Genesis version have an ending too? I got up past 100 levels once, and got tired of playing long enough to see if it would ever end... I was over it and the friend I was playing with had gotten over it and left already... and there didn't seem to be a way to save it and come back to it later... so I decided that expecting players to play through over 100 levels in one sitting was asking too much... I know it's been a requirement in several games to complete 99 or 100 levels, but I think that's the limit at which designers should stop... no game is really that much fun to anyone for that long... but still I've always been curious what would've happened if I had kept playing... so I guess that would have to be my answer... does Gauntlet 4 ever end?

[scooterb23]

All of you that have never beaten Super Mario Bros. put down the mouse, turn off the interweb, and don't come back until you complete the game! I think that should be a requirement before joining the forums in the first place.

I know it isn't a "big" game, but I love Ninja Golf, yet I have never finished all 9 holes. The best I have done is the 7th hole.