Games You Have Beaten on One Life

[stonic]

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[GobopopRevisited]

Not me but my brother...

Game: Super Mario RPG: Legend of The Seven Stars

Last form of Smithy... Mario? (the Power) Dead... Peach? (Support) Dead...
Geno? One Hit-Point Left... Items? Flower and a Great Guy Casino Card... nothing to do but press A.

Kerrr.... POW! Smithy Takes a Timed-Hit Star Gun right in the face! and BAM! game over... Lucky Bastard...

[tony_good]

SF II

SF II Champion Edition

hardest of all SFIII, 3rd Strike, hardest setting, no continuing, got the secret character, not losing one single match.

And I STILL only got A+ and NOT A++.

I was so outraged, I turned to drinking.

[Arcade Antics]

When completing a game on one life, I would say it would count if you have an audience watching you do it. Completing a game on one life is an incredible feat in itself. Without an audience, your achievement goes completely unnoticed, no one will talk about it to others, and no one will care.

Unless you tape it, that is

I recently rolled VCS Dig Dug and Sky Skipper on one life.

Here's my question - rolling a game on 1 life vs marathoning a game. Which is a better example of a player's skill?

I vote the "roll on one life" as a better indicator of skill. If you can roll it on one life, there's a very good chance you could roll it until the end of time, given more than one life.

Marathoning a game leans a little less on skill and more on a matter of endurance - players quit when they're bored of the whole scene.

Rolling the score on one life leaves room for improvement (i.e., lowest time to complete the roll) and more challenge from other players in less time.

My two zenny.

[tony_good]

I beg to differ with Arcade Antics.

Maybe usually, but I HAVE rolled Kung-Fu Master in the arcade with one life, and it gets way too difficult after that! Even with 3 lives in reserve, I never flipped it more than twice.

[Arcade Antics]

I beg to differ with Arcade Antics.

Maybe usually, but I HAVE rolled Kung-Fu Master in the arcade with one life, and it gets way too difficult after that! Even with 3 lives in reserve, I never flipped it more than twice.

True - and I agree.

I was mainly thinking about "marathon" gaming in the sense that a game would last more than, say, ten hours and wouldn't really end (Pac-Man split screen) unless the gamer fell from physical exhaustion.

[stonic]

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[SegaAges]

capcom vs snk 2

let's see

burnout 3

i beat the hell out of tony hawk underground and got all the way through the game in 2 sittings (story and classic mode).

I have beaten separation anxiety for snes on 1 life (i need to get that game again)

[Rogmeister]

I probably haven't done it much, if at all...but does Super Punch-Out count if you go through the entire game (16 opponents) without even getting knocked down once?

[Mianrtcv]

Are arcade fighters like Soul Caliber, etc. included?
Did that and some of the like.
Castlevania

What's the topic again? Too fried to remember just now.
All my brain cells are on snooze. I'll try later. zzzzz.