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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the original NES. It was widely believed that the game didn't even contain a second level, though I myself can debunk that rumor. Nobody I am aware of has ever beaten it.

Originally posted by LordSic

E.T - for the Atari 2600

i still have this game and console.. and i still dont understand it

i believe it is unbeatable! i was thinking of MANY games like this though, where there is no real end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_game

if anyone is putting games you can just load a save in they need to stop gaming, they make the rest of us look dumb. all those games back in the day where you had like 3 lives and 3 continues to beat the game in are the real deals. 'course emulators have save states, so i wonder how many people really beat em' legit (should have used THAT word).

i would be interested to see what games people choose from say 128 bit on (no denying alot of nes games were difficult) no cheats, infact if the game has cheats possible you look like a noob for even mentioning it.

i would still say ninja gaiden.

but second would be jetset radio future with ALL unlockables.

This says it all...

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/445123

To find those you need to step back to the 8-bit era. Todays games are most of the time, easy peasy play in your sleep games. There are exceptions though, like the fiendeshly difficult Devil May Cry series, allthough it fades compared to some of the old 8-bit games when it comes to difficulty.

The old shooter called IO for the C64 had me breaking my controllers in anger as a kid :P That game is so damn hard its a lesson in frustration playing it. Another game on the old C64 called Cauldron or Cauldron 2 or something like that I never managed to finish cause it was so damn hard. You played a witch (a real one, with warts, hooknose and everything ) and wanted to collect ingredients for her spells. Another game I never managed to finish was Jumpman Jr, also on the C64. The secret ninjalevel beat my ass every time I tried it (mixing stuff up here. That ninjalevel was in a remake years after..oh well)

When I think about it, alot of those 8-bit games kicked your ass, so to choose a top difficult game amongst them is a little hard, but I say those games I mentioned above are good candidates, together with a few other, like another classic called Ghost n Goblins. You where mentally raped in that one

Originally posted by slask777

To find those you need to step back to the 8-bit era. Todays games are most of the time, easy peasy play in your sleep games. There are exceptions though, like the fiendeshly difficult Devil May Cry series, allthough it fades compared to some of the old 8-bit games when it comes to difficulty.

The old shooter called IO for the C64 had me breaking my controllers in anger as a kid :P That game is so damn hard its a lesson in frustration playing it. Another game on the old C64 called Cauldron or Cauldron 2 or something like that I never managed to finish cause it was so damn hard. You played a witch (a real one, with warts, hooknose and everything ) and wanted to collect ingredients for her spells. Another game I never managed to finish was Jumpman Jr, also on the C64. The secred ninjalevel beat my ass every time I tried it.

When I think about it, alot of those 8-bit games kicked your ass so to choose a top difficult game amongst them is a little hard, but I say those games I mentioned above are good candidates, together with a few other, like another classic called Ghost n Goblins. You where mentally raped in that one

amen!

the op says "have beaten" so i guess the real hard ones arent getting listed. alot of games just had shitty jumping also.

Originally posted by LordSic

E.T - for the Atari 2600

i still have this game and console.. and i still dont understand it

I'm not sure anybody was meant to actually BEAT the game lawl!

My personal swould be:

The first few Tojam and Earl games and Ikaruga. Ikaruga is ridiculously fun though, I'll tell you that much :) So I don't care how many times I don't finish.

I admit the OP by the way he asked his question kind of prejudiced peoples answers, but I find it sad how the posters here interpreted 'difficult' (by a margin of 13 to 1) to mean feats of hand/eye coordination, rather than difficult in the sense of an intellectual challenge. Maybe there really is no hope.

Most difficult? Managing every ship, every air squadron, and every troop unit actually involved in the Pacific theater in WWII in Gary Grigsby's 'War in the Pacific'. This sim was too much even for my tastes.

PC Game: 1993

The original, X-Wing...... (Not TIE Fighter, not XvT, not XwA... those were not hard).

and its expansions

"B-Wing" and "Imperial Pursuit."

hardest PC games I ever played, and entirely worth it. REAL Star Wars, which is a long forgotten concept from LucasArts now.

Originally posted by megafluxmega

Originally posted by slask777

To find those you need to step back to the 8-bit era. Todays games are most of the time, easy peasy play in your sleep games. There are exceptions though, like the fiendeshly difficult Devil May Cry series, allthough it fades compared to some of the old 8-bit games when it comes to difficulty.

The old shooter called IO for the C64 had me breaking my controllers in anger as a kid :P That game is so damn hard its a lesson in frustration playing it. Another game on the old C64 called Cauldron or Cauldron 2 or something like that I never managed to finish cause it was so damn hard. You played a witch (a real one, with warts, hooknose and everything ) and wanted to collect ingredients for her spells. Another game I never managed to finish was Jumpman Jr, also on the C64. The secred ninjalevel beat my ass every time I tried it.

When I think about it, alot of those 8-bit games kicked your ass so to choose a top difficult game amongst them is a little hard, but I say those games I mentioned above are good candidates, together with a few other, like another classic called Ghost n Goblins. You where mentally raped in that one

amen!

the op says "have beaten" so i guess the real hard ones arent getting listed. alot of games just had shitty jumping also.

Aah sweet memories Cauldron 1 & 2 and Ghosts and Goblins on Amstrad CPC, they were too hard and unforgiving really but they made history (along with Sorcery + and Get Dexter).

A guy has reprogrammed Cauldron 1 for PC: http://cpc.devilmarkus.de/include.php?path=content/content.php&contentid=108