What do you think the #1 hardest NES game is?

[uzo]

TMNT as well, once you pass the underwater parts, you can grab scrolls at the end of one area, leave come back and bang you hit the easy button.

I remember that trick. It was in one of the buildings in the city level. I'd go through the one building again and again and fill up all my turtle's secondary weapons with those badboys. The problem was, you would still accidentally lose 90 scrolls because you mistimed a jump and picked up some fucking boomerangs or something. And you needed those rope/hook shot things as well later on so you lost scrolls there too.

Still didn't help too much though. You still had to be pretty damned tough to get through the game. There was that damned itty bitty sewer jump (that AVGN raged about IIRC), there were those damned spiked walls that closed on you and you had to madly get down through the levels (in fact, the JFK Int'l had lots of walls that would kill you on a single hit - fire pits, closing spiked walls, and the strange glowing spikey roof).

I could get through the farm level, find the technodrome, get through the technodrome ... but then there was that final hallway before fighting Shredder. Sweet Jesus. Without Game Genie or the scrolls, you didn't stand a chance. Those space men would swarm in the hallway so much that the (hardly amazing...) processing power of the NES would start to chug along, 1 fps etc with artifacts and shit all over the screen as you try to mash through it all.

I only got to Shredder once (without using my friend's Game Genie at his place one day) and I had only 1 turtle and piss-all life left. But a good time was had by all nonetheless. The music from the TMNT levels still play on loop in my head sometimes (when I drive around town for example).

 

[Alcaste]

Of the ones I'm in the midst of playing, Adventure of Link and Castlevania 3 are both pretty brutal. I must admit, I haven't played Ninja Gaiden or the infamous Battletoads.

Those friggen boomerang dudes though in Zelda... I swear. It's like dark souls before dark souls.

 

[thejackyl]

Of the ones I'm in the midst of playing, Adventure of Link and Castlevania 3 are both pretty brutal. I must admit, I haven't played Ninja Gaiden or the infamous Battletoads.

Those friggen boomerang dudes though in Zelda... I swear. It's like dark souls before dark souls.

I think the Blue Iron Knuckles, and any of the lizards were worse. You can block the boomerangs a LOT easier than the swords, plus they don't have an annoying shield. Most annoying enemy goes to those floating eyes. Especially when there are pits.

Plus that final dungeon... I was never able to get to the first boss, let alone the final one. Never had much trouble with the rest of the game, apart from navigation, but the gauntlet up to the final dungeon is a *****. I think I've only made it to the final dungeon once or twice.

 

[gamernerdtg2]

Wow I think I'm gonna show my age here, but Castlevania was hella fun to beat. The Grim Reaper level is a pain, and I can remember all the difficult spots, but it just kind of "happens" for you as you keep playing those games.
Punch Out (Mike Tyson's version) was amazing and I say the same for that game.
I ate Ninja Gaiden for breakfast, but there is one boss that is super hard towards the end. That game is hard, Ghouls and Ghost's is SUPER hard (never beat it), but the hardest game would have to be:

Blaster Master. I dare anyone to try that game and NOT get frustrated.

I have to say that the conveniences from the modern gamer era are nice to have, but I do miss the gritty skill based difficulty of the old days. Yes most of it came from glitches or whatever, but the games were great. I loved all the Battletoads games.

 

[gamernerdtg2]

Dang, ya'll are making me want to dust off my NES and bust into some Gaiden. Loved that game!

 

[lechat]

beat battletoads a couple of times after burning that hover level into my muscle memory but never managed to beat tmnt

 

[Nowhere Man]

Beat Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 (Bad ass games). Beat Ghost and Goblins (that was a group effort). But Battle Toads? No that scooter level sent me and my younger brother into so many rage quits. Oh the NES days..

 

[Lrbearclaw]

Loved Battletoads, "Rat Race" was harder than the bikes in level three.

TMNT was fun, only the Dam was truly hard.

FF1 was awesome, Bane Sword (as an item) + Tiamat. Just saying. Chaos was a ***** at level 35ish, but at 50 he would make you his *****. (One of the few bosses that scaled to your level.) But only NES-FF1 was hard due to spell and item/gear limits.

Castlevania was clunky with it's jump mechanics, not really hard persay.


Ninja Gaiden? Yeah that game made me walk away.... permanently.

 

[Carlston]

Seriously though, I want one person to come on here and tell me they've actually beaten Cobra Triangle. I still have an NES and that game specifically because one day I want to beat it. (I've finished Battletoads and Ghosts 'n' Goblins by the way.)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/cobratriangle/cobratriangle.htm

That was one of those games I beat, and beat once...and never picked it up again.

That thing was one of the most frustrating carts I ever played.

 

[Maximum Bert]

Battletoads
Punch Out
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Ninja Gaiden
Mario the lost levels
Ghost N Goblins
Contra

This has me feeling pretty bad ass since I beat all those games, save for TMNT.
I think Battle toads and Ninja Gaiden were the hardest, but I might be remembering things wrong. Lol, my mother was able to get half way through Battletoads. I know most current gen players couldn't even get that far.

what you beat them almost all of them well kudos for that I only ever finished Lost levels and TMNT odd how one of the few I finished is one you didnt though mind you I used to play the crap out of that game same with Mario.

I would like to finish Punch Out one day but I cant see that happening im just awful at it think I only ever beat Bald Bull once his stupid rush punch thing always knocked me out I could never time the counter.

 

[xPixelatedx]

I would like to finish Punch Out one day but I cant see that happening im just awful at it think I only ever beat Bald Bull once his stupid rush punch thing always knocked me out I could never time the counter.

Just be sure to play it on an old CRT. The millisecond lag with newer TVs will end you fast. I have never seen a game more about timing then the original Punchout. Heck I don't even think it's possible to fight Tyson on anything but an older screen.

 

[floppylobster]

Seriously though, I want one person to come on here and tell me they've actually beaten Cobra Triangle. I still have an NES and that game specifically because one day I want to beat it. (I've finished Battletoads and Ghosts 'n' Goblins by the way.)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/cobratriangle/cobratriangle.htm

That was one of those games I beat, and beat once...and never picked it up again.

That thing was one of the most frustrating carts I ever played.

I'm impressed.

I actually kind of like the game but man those waterfall levels are so goddamned unfair. That and I've never been that good at isometric games means that I've been playing that game on and off for over twenty years and still never got past level 22 (out of 25?).

 

[piinyouri]

In the interest of something different, I'm saying Air Fortress.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

The Roadrunner Show (NES). It's a pure memorization game as which path to take with no room for error. Like Battletoads, except every level is the Turbo Tunnel. Also pretty awful in general. NES is probably the hardest one to call for this sort of thing because many of the games were made hard by bad controls/design instead of challenging obstacles.

 

[Fappy]

The hardest NES game I ever played was Silver Surfer, but that probably falls into the "broken" category.

The original TMNT game was also a son of a *****. Seriously, fuck the underwater level.

 

[Mrkillhappy]

I would have to say Ninja Gaiden III as that is the only nes game where I still can't beat the first boss.

 

[Murrdox]

I've beaten several NES games considered to be ridiculously hard. Most notable Battletoads, Bionic Commando and Metroid.

For me, the hardest games I ever played were:

Castlevania - The controls were so slow, and you had to have the reflexes of a fox in certain points.
Ghosts and Goblins - You were a master if you even got to the third stage. My friends and I used to cheer if we could play for more than a minute without losing your suit of armor.
TMNT - Seriously compared to Battletoads, TMNT is just brutal.

I'm going to add... Rambo. I think I rented this game a couple of times, and it was just brutally hard. I could barely make any progress without dying.

 

[PH3NOmenon]

TMNT - Seriously compared to Battletoads, TMNT is just brutal.

I finished TMNT as a 10-year-old, it was difficult but near as I recall through my nostalgic haze, not unfair. I rember finally getting to the technodrome... at 10 years old, that much adrenaline should be illegal.


Thanks for reminding me about bionic commando too, I remembered I have the rearmed on my steam account, still. Need to play that at some point.