Joined: 4/11/2004
Posts: 155
Location: Fairfax, VA, USA
12Motion wrote:
Ikaruga though... that game is rough, I would love to see a completion video of that game!
Then you want the Ikaruga Appreciate DVD. It has some of the most amazing playing I have ever had the pleasure to witness. The price is a tad steep, though.
Don't buy an Ikaruga gameplay DVD! You do know that the game itself includes not one but two different complete runs through, both without commiting death or chain errors?
Just get up to a level without continuing and you will then be able to access that level's demo. The demos for horizontal and vertical modes are different.
Joined: 4/11/2004
Posts: 155
Location: Fairfax, VA, USA
xebra wrote:
Don't buy an Ikaruga gameplay DVD! You do know that the game itself includes not one but two different complete runs through, both without commiting death or chain errors?
There is a vast difference in quality between the runs in the game and the runs on the DVD. The runs in the game are informative; the performances on the DVD are world-record caliber.
I dare to say that none of these games come even close to Gradius 3 arcade (and I mean the original arcade machine, not snes Gradius 3 with arcade difficulty).
I've beaten Toki. :D
Battletoads has already been mentioned, but how about DooM II in nightmare difficulty? Thats one incredibly insane difficult game. You have unlimited lives, but if you die you lose your weapons, so practically you only have one. I think only two people have ever gotten through it.
1) ftp://competn.doom2.net:8002/pub/compet-n/doom2/movie/30nm3413.zip
2) ftp://competn.doom2.net:8002/pub/compet-n/doom2/movie/30nm3740.zip
3) ftp://competn.doom2.net:8002/pub/compet-n/doom2/movie/30nm3753.zip
There was one by Panter in about 49 minutes too but it seems to have vanished from the internet (perhaps because it was much slower).
So I guess they are four in total now.
Joined: 7/11/2004
Posts: 30
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
I've seen Ikaruga being beaten. Never had a chance to try it myself. But it is beatable.
Blaster Master, saw a friend beat that.
Kid Icarus, I've beaten it myself hundreds of times. It's easy.
To me, it looks like whoever wrote the article didn't have time nor the wont for completing the games listed.
"When all else fails, hit it with a sledgehammer."
"I know Kung-Fu!" "No, you do not. You're an idiot."
i OWN ikaruga (like, literally, I have it on gamecube. Its also fairly easy if you are good at shooters, except in bullet-eater mode, in which you have to be Jesus on the Ferris Wheel of Doom level). I have not beaten it without dying.
but where is Alien vs Predator? dude, i don't think anyone, anywhere, has beaten that game on hard mode. the enemies see you no matter where you are, and can kill you with one hit. its like a game MADE to piss you off.
i think this one won the award for hard-ass game in the PCXL assolympics.
Personally, I think the writers of the article were looking for games that were not only hard, but also rather well-known. And it's not as though you can expect them to have played every game ever just to find the hardest ones.
put yourself in my rocketpack if that poochie is one outrageous dude
Arkanoid.. with the normal nes controller (or other plain controller with a D-pad). Fucking IMPOSSIBLE. I guess it is *technically* possible, but I don't believe there is a human alive that can do it without using tools, or the spinny-controller-thing.
Someone try it out, please. I can't get past the 4th godamn level and I feel like a sped..
What about treasure master or whatever is was called for NES? Wasn't that supposed to be insanely difficult? I have never played it.
Arkanoid.. with the normal nes controller (or other plain controller with a D-pad). Fucking IMPOSSIBLE. I guess it is *technically* possible, but I don't believe there is a human alive that can do it without using tools, or the spinny-controller-thing.
Someone try it out, please. I can't get past the 4th godamn level and I feel like a sped..
Using the secret warps, I've managed to level 22 (the secret warps carry to level 16 but not further).
Without secret warps, I don't remember how far I've got. Levels 11, 14 and 15 are hard.
22? you're crazy. . you must like, see the code or something.. because that game is ridiculous. :) Once it speeds up, by time or heigt or whatever, i'm toast. TOAST!
That game just annoys me soooo much. I honestly can't think of a harder game.. i want to pull my hair out just thinking about it.
Joined: 8/17/2004
Posts: 16
Location: Helsinki, Finland
I think that Solomon's key was quite hard to beat. I died and tried, until I reached the last level, which I never completed. So I was quite furious and yet still satisfied when I saw the time attack of it. :)
Battletoads was too hard to me as well.
Faxanadu was too difficult for me, but I was too young to understand all the hints, that were given through the game.
I quit playing NES games at the age of 10. Needed some money for SNES ;)
Oh, Wizards and Warriors II wasn't that hard, in my opinion.
Has anyone talked about Ghosts'n'goblins and Super Ghouls'n'ghosts?
I beat them on my emulator but I seriously ABUSED save states. I saved at every level, and it took me like 30 resets on each one! Then I beat the games just to find out I have to do it again!? OMFG.
Joined: 7/5/2004
Posts: 551
Location: Karlstad, Sweden
? They only show Kid Icarus, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, Ikaruga, Blaster Master and Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar as unbeatable
Where did you find all the other unbeatable games?
Joined: 8/25/2004
Posts: 44
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Impossible Mission for the C64. I played that so much as a little kid, then again sometime last year and I STILL couldn't beat it. In fact, I don't even know what I'm supposed to do except avoid scary robots and pick up stuff from vending machines.
"Stay a while... STAY FOREVER!"
Joined: 3/13/2004
Posts: 1118
Location: Kansai, JAPAN
Fro Jackson wrote:
Impossible Mission for the C64. I played that so much as a little kid, then again sometime last year and I STILL couldn't beat it. In fact, I don't even know what I'm supposed to do except avoid scary robots and pick up stuff from vending machines.
"Stay a while... STAY FOREVER!"
Ha, totally. I had that game but I had no instructions of any kind. And back then, there weren't no Internet to help out.
Blaster Master certainly isn't unbeatable. I beat it once before on an emulator(no savestates or cheats). Died twice on that run; I know one of the deaths was an intentional suicide because I did this little experiment in level 5 and became separated from my car, but I can't remember the other place I died...maybe against the final boss?
I decided to take a look at the Blaster Master comments there.
Stuck on the level 5 boss?!? I don't see how that can be possible...the lobster is a push-over if you have full gun power. It's still quite do-able if your only gun upgrade is the long range.
The parts of the game I consider to be hard are the level 3 boss and level 8.
