Why Were Games So Damn Hard Back Then?!

[Chris Cool]

Thread got me thinking.... i don't think i beat a game until ps2 came out.

 

[Urahara_Kisuke]

I tried to beat TMNT as an adult..still sent me in the same rage it did as a kid

Same here. That's when I bumped into this video and just watched that shyt like

 

[Apollo Kid]

I beat a few NES games as a kid, (didn't beat SMB3 until my early 20's ) but beating Bionic Commando was one of my finest gaming achievements as a youngin'

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

I've never beaten a single Mario game

 

[bogey_j]

Because we were all huge fans of TMNT we were forcing ourselves to play the game as ridiculously hard as it was. Everyday we would get a little further than the last day but like i said my cousin had a rep for beating the unbeatable games and he became obsessed with it. He was deadass playing it 23-24 hours a day for days straight, no sleep, barely eating. We never really thought about that he was already playing when we woke up or he was still playing when we were going to sleep. He just ever stopped playing. His body pretty much shut down on him, he passed out and ended up in the hospital with a IV in his arm. It was crazy. Child protective services thought he was being abused or neglected by my aunt and we woke up and told them he just was playing video games all day they didn't believe it. After he got out of the hospital my aunt gave away their nintendo, which made us spend the whole summer outside until they came to my house to play my nintendo.

Furthest he ever got was passed the technodrome with half a square of life left.

....dude

 

[Nymbus]

Made the game seem so much longer than it wabeat king hippo on punchout have me turnin off the tv like that's enough for one day I'm exhausted
Nowadays your open world story driven games nikkas be like "9 hours??"

 

[ORDER_66]

Mike Tyson's punch out.... Me and my cousins actually got to iron mike and we all lost that day.....

 

[hotbeezie]

Also, I call bullshyt on most mothafukkas saying they beat the first SMB unless you can tell me how you got out of the 2 maze levels, then it's straight

You mean the Japanese version of SMB2 aka "lost levels"

shyt was pure heat

 

[b. woods]

Have any of you brehs ever beaten World 7 - Pipe Maze on Mario 3? I would always use one of the whistles to skip that shyt.

 

[beenz]

I beat a few NES games as a kid, (didn't beat SMB3 until my early 20's ) but beating Bionic Commando was one of my finest gaming achievements as a youngin'

man, I had bionic commando as a kid. as well as strider, SMB1, 2, and 3, ninja gaiden and TMNT 1 and the TMNT arcade game plus metal gear. I was able to beat the three mario games, but I couldn't beat none of them other ones. got to the technodrone in TMNT, got far in metal gear, but lost the map. bionic commando was hard as hell too. couldn't beat that or strider either. TMNT arcade game was simple tho.

 

[beenz]

I beat a few NES games as a kid, (didn't beat SMB3 until my early 20's ) but beating Bionic Commando was one of my finest gaming achievements as a youngin'

man, I had bionic commando as a kid. as well as strider, SMB1, 2, and 3, ninja gaiden and TMNT 1 and the TMNT arcade game plus metal gear. I was able to beat the three mario games, but I couldn't beat none of them other ones. got to the technodrone in TMNT, got far in metal gear, but lost the map. bionic commando was hard as hell too. couldn't beat that or strider either. TMNT arcade game was simple tho.

 

[BasedPrime]

I even beat Kid Icarus

 

[same damn lo sweater]

picking donatello & skipping over items & bad guys, as a kid that goes against your instincts.


this game was impossible. theres no way a kid could've figured out that fighting technique


the last level on renegade was confusing as fuk. you had to pick the right doors or you just kept going in circles

 

[Kingshango]

I remember beating playing Super Ghouls N Ghost on the SNES for hours and finally beat the last boss, It was the best feeling in the world.

Then the game tells me "You cannot rescue the princess without the magical bracelet. Please go back and find it."

And they send me back to the first stage to find the bracelet ON A HARDER DIFFICULTY!

I was like fukk that and told my brother to sent that game back to Funcoland.

 

[BasedPrime]