The Hardest Game EVER???...

[mr_nihilism]

Ghosts 'N Goblins (NES)

I consider anybody that can finish the game without cheats to be a gaming god.

[om3ga]

Battletoads is hard, but I don't think it is the hardest game ever. I can get to level 3 or so on this game but yet I can't get past the first level in Metal Gear or the 2nd level in Contra.

Dood ......

I bet you don't know that you can duck all the incomming bullets on the 2nd level. Those style of levels are so hard if you don't know you can duck the bullets. I actually have beat the game several times without ducking ... lol before I knew you could.

[downfall]

Do you mean the original? I can beat it on one life. (sorry, that sounded like a snotty brag...but I know a few others here can beat it with just 3 lives too). I can go through it several times on 1 continue without cheats. The PS2 version though...man..I made it to level 4 and gave up...much like Ikaruga.

Yep. Excluding the parts of the game when it's necessary (bosses and bases), I've managed to beat Contra on one life without using the gun. That's fun!

Contra III on the other hand - no way.

Hardest game though? No idea. I'll nominate:

Blast Corps (all Platinums - just passing some of those levels is a bear)

and

Dragon's Lair (NES) - Mostly due to the lacking control scheme, but man it's a tough one too.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Beware. He lives.

Well hey, I think it's hard.

[long_shawn_silver]

I have been playing the game "SMURF: RESCUE IN GARGAMEL'S CASTLE" for 20 years now and I cannot get the last level (or difficulty 4..lol) beat for the life of me. I have never met or heard of anyone that can say they have beat this last level (level 4) of "Smurf:Rescue...". Any takers on owning up to say they have beat level 4 of Smurf:Rescue? Cause I tip my hat to you cause I got 20 years worth of trying and no luck and this is my favorite game!! So ya Smurf on the Atari 2600 is my pick for "the hardest game ever".

[Ed Oscuro]

Damn, somebody's beaten DD3?

;D

Well, the NES Ghosts 'n Goblins is damned hard...control scheme isn't much of a help either. I'd think one of the ports (C64 maybe?) would be even worse; there's one that lets you fall through the floor if you jump from too high up...yay!

NES Contra really isn't too bad...arcade Contra pretty much the same. Now Gunforce...agh...THAT is tough.

Toughest thing I ever beat, though, would be the Invincibility time req. for Goldeneye. Beat it once, and decided that was enough :P

[Dreamscape]

Undead Line

[El CiF]

the hardest game ive ever played personally is Last Blade 2 for dreamcast. maybe i just suck at that game but i had to lower the difficulty wayyyyy down

[Howie6925]

Starship Hactor(nes) is the hardest game i ever played.
(ithink I have the spelling right)

[Sotenga]

Well, I COULD say Ikari Warriors for the NES... but it sucks badly, so it doesn't count. :P

Hmm, this one's a thinker. I've beaten lots of difficult games, but to consider one of them the hardest game ever... probably the arcade version of Ghosts N' Goblins. The NES version was at least beatable through much persistence, but the arcade original... geezum, stage 3 is a friggin' migrane, and I don't even want to explain stage 6.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

Journey to Silus for NES is one of the harder games ive played.

[postulio]

i have yet to play a harder game than contra for nes. but thats just me. i finished battltoads by the way, it was hard, made me break my controller, but contra is simply impossible in my book.

[Kilik Kurosawa]

arkanoid

[imanerd0011]

Postulio ... if you can beat Battletoads , you can easily beat Contra with a little practice. I always thought that Contra was impossible too when I was growing up and pretty much throughout my entire life until this summer. I would just play through it once every few days , and after a month or so I had mastered the game. I can beat it without dying and only using the pea shooter. To the guy who said he can beat it without dying and without using his gun unless it's required, my hat is off to you, you are a true contra master !
I also forgot about Ikari Warriors, that game is impossible. Has anyone here beat it without the code ? The main character is so damn slow its hilarious , and there is shit flying all over the screen all the time.
I'm also gonna make an honest effort to beat Double Dragon 3 in the next few days. So I'll reply back in here after I give up .

[suppafly]

Of all the games I own I gotta go with Silver Surfer. That game is horrid. It's a shooter , but the enemies take more than 1 hit to kill , and you die after 1 shot and you go back to the beginning of the level ( talk about evil game creators). I would say that Double Dragon 3 is a close 2nd. The enemies in that game are ruthless!!!

DD3 on NES is far from hard. Im a very average player, and i finished it in one day.....

and about contra (someone else mentioned) its not THAT hard either...just takes some practice and memory

[atomicthumbs]

Spy Hunter on NES.... Even after 17 or so years, I still SUCK!!! Can't get past the second level. What the HELL is wrong with meeee?!?!

[whoisKeel]

mars matrix is currently pissing me off...i've been playing that game for about 3 weeks straight and am getting no better at all. at least with ikaruga, i would see improvement every couple of days, but not matrix. i think this is the only game i've put this many hours into and just can't get the hang of it...at all...yet i'm so addicted it's insane.

[retroman]

ya the Toads where hard.... i agree.

[VitaminX]

Another game I personally thought was hard to conquer but no one has mentioned was Kid Chameleon<< Was that for the NES too???... Not sure. Did anyone complete that game?... I thought that was impossible (without cheats mind)...

[Neonsolid]

Gone.