The hardest Nintendo game to beat

I submit to you: Bubble Bobble



Not only did it have 800 thousand levels of increasing difficulty, not only were the controls ridiculously unresponsive, not only was the last enemy a creature with an abnormally large amount of life energy, but you could ONLY win with two people and you BOTH had to survive the whole time.

it was the game that NEVER ENDS.

Gauntlet is a bitch. Yet i can't stop playing it.

[Edited on Sep 12, 2005 by KorbenDallas]

TMNT was also absurdly hard. Though I never played Bubble Bobble.

NINJA GAIDEN. Fuckin' Tecmo in the 80's...fuckin' Tecmo. Couldn't make something like Tecmo Bowl again.

Bionic Commando. I can't tell you how much of my childhood was spent in the futile pursuit of completing that game.

It was basically impossible to make it through Metroid without help, unless you enjoyed bombing every section of floor at random.

it only had 100 levels.

Hmmmm

Deja vu

Ninja Gaiden

bionic commando was the game i loved to hate. i couldn't stop playing it no matter how frustrated i got with it.

I forgot about Ninja Gaiden. It was so long and you had to start over from scratch every time you played. Yeah that one drove me nuts.

The the clinkity clink grappling hook sound effects were key.

I beat the game, but only with a PC emulator and quicksave

Frickin Marble Madness. No extra men or restarts from the same point

I remember that! I was so glad that I'd only rented that game instead of buying it.

Donkey Kong.

We beat Bubble Bobble with easy. The tough game was Blaster Master.

No wait. Q'Bert.

I beat every game mentioned thus far save Gauntlet (II--the one that literally didn't end) and Bubble Bobble. Pity the childhood.

Hope you made it, cuz the ending was SO fucking worth the trouble.

Agreed. As much as I loved/played that game, I could never beat the three headed dragon.

I'm still working on The Krion Conquest, but I pretty much suck at anything that isn't Tetris.

God. You know which other one also sucked? Karnov. Talk about unresponsive...was beind a dead Russian fireball-spitting fish.

The one game that made a 6 y/o fat kid cry every night, muthalovin' Ghouls and Ghosts!! My older brother couldn't even beat the game, and his fingers were calloused like cinderblocks. My lil knight dude stayed runnin around in his little heart boxers, poor guy musta hated me as I constantly had him battling the forces of evil in the buff. Awesome game, but it was a bastard!