Name a video game that you could not beat

[eldorado99]

I would say Super Mario: Lost Levels for NES, but I pwned that game a few months ago, after days and days, that is by far the hardest mario game ever.

 

[meltdown75]

um.. a couple that I kind of gave up on were Mission Impossible on the C=64... currently I'd say Neverwinter Nights (just stopped playing) and either GTA or GTA Vice City...

 

[lokiju]

Halo 1 still, I know I'm close but damn that sh!t just keeps going!

GTA Vice City also, but I just kinda stopped playing, I never really tired.

 

[BatmanNate]

Battletoads...I never made it past the 3rd stage. And when playing two player, we usually didn't make it past the first because we'd fight over the stick.

 

[OrByte]

The second Zelda game. I think it was for SNES.

It was when Link had to fight his shadow or something like that..

grrrrrrr....

 

[glen]

Mario 64

 

[venk]

The Oregan Trail.

If they would only let me carry more BUffalo Meat!

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: jfall
Notice how most of the games listed are older games (mostly NES). Were the games harder back then or what?

hell yes. I stopped buying console stuff after N64 b/c the games were just too damn easy.

 

[CptObvious]

I could never beat Ninja Gaiden for the original NES. I finally beat it on an emulator using save states. It's ridiculous how if you die at the last boss, it makes you play the entire stage over again.

 

[BRObedoza]

Zelda: Ocarina of Time on N64

f*cking Water Temple.

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
Ghouls and Goblins...the moment you reach the final level, the guy says "OMG I forgot a key" and you have to replay the whole game...

Yeah never finished Super Ghouls and Ghosts on the SNES. At the time I couldn't get past the 2nd level with the dam boat thing you were on and the waves going up and down

Never finished Golden Axe either.

Koing

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: eLiu

Originally posted by: jfall
Notice how most of the games listed are older games (mostly NES). Were the games harder back then or what?

hell yes. I stopped buying console stuff after N64 b/c the games were just too damn easy.

Sure you did.

 

[Modeps]

Ninja Gaiden - Xbox

 

[SWScorch]

System Shock 2. I should really install that game again. Man it was spooky.

 

[EpsiIon]

Originally posted by: KoolAidKid
Some NES games can be really hard, much harder than most current games.

Agreed. I tend to think of modern games as "experiences" rather than "challenges."

 

[oldirtythao]

Originally posted by: AkumaX
can't think of any

Of course... AkumaX was the PSX champion in 1998

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: quakefiend420

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
TMNT 1

that game was hard...i almost beat it once...but all my turtles died

Would I be totally evil, if I said that I could beat that game without losing a single turtle, at all? (The two hardest parts are those two rooms that you have to drop down through, with the moving instant-death spike-walls, and the underwater level, with the electric beams, and the timer counting down. Secondarily, you have to load up on boomerangs and wave-beam scrolls for the final level too.) I wouldn't say that the game is easy though, but it's possible to memorize the whole thing. I could also (believe it or not) beat Ninja Gaiden, CastleVania, and Ghosts N Goblins without dying. (Maybe the last one was without continuing, it's been a while.)

OTOH, here's the games that I've never beaten, most of which have been mentioned by others:
Battletoads for NES
Solomon's Key for NES
RC Pro-Am for NES
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out for NES
some Chinese Heros game from Culture Brain for NES
Athena for NES
Mighty Bomb Jack for NES
Kid Chameleon for Genesis

Boxxle for Gameboy (*)
* Interesting anecdote here - the game actually has a bug on one of the levels, that prevents you from completing all of the levels straight through. My friend, who was rather clever, managed to hack the password scheme used to keep track of your completed levels, and simply skipped past the "unsolvable" level, but got stuck on a later level, and had to call a "game counsellor" from that company, and the phone rep was floored that my friend had been able to get to that level, because "that wasn't supposed to be possible due to the bug". I found that rather funny myself.

I think that Athena has a similar problem. There was a solution printed in one of the early mags (GamePro, I think), that described how to finish it, but as it figures, that's one of the few issues that I'm missing out of my "early years" collections of video-game mags.
Worst part is, I can play the game all the way to the end boss without dying (a three-hour-plus affair, btw), but unless you go a certain specific way, and get some specific "magic item", which can only be kept if you avoid going a certain other path, in order to actually be able to harm the final end-boss. (SNK always had evil end-bosses, but this was an entirely cruel trick.) If you've ever played Athena extensively (it's kind of like SMB in terms of number of levels and length, but much slower gameplay), then you have a vague idea of the PITA that this "secret item trick" thing causes. In fact, I don't recall what that item was, or how to get it, not without that issue of the mag. I think it might have been issue #5, not sure.

BattleToads was just... cruel. RARE are a bunch of sadists. (Well, all good video-game designers are, to a certain extent, but RARE simply honed that edge to a knife-point in some of their games.) This is the game that the Game Genie was invented for, folks. Seriously. I mean, I can beat Shadow of the Beast for Genesis, Ninja Gaiden for NES without dying, but not BattleToads. How utterly frustrating. I am forced to admit defeat at the hands of a computer.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

i could never figure out how to disable the bomb at the end of "Red Faction" (PC version).. too bad, I enjoyed the game...

 

[tami]

sonic the hedgehog for gamegear.

and castlevania for nintendo. i couldn't beat that level with the raising ground part.

i'm not a big gamer.

 

[RadioHead84]

Ok well there are a bunch of games i havent finished...just beucase they got borring but there are a few games that i couldnt finsih..and really wanted to.

Marbel Madness...come on..that was a fricken impossible game. Always played like the first 3 lvls ..oh yeah this is fun..then the 4th and you just get fricken pissed off!


NBA Jam for the xbox..HARD!

the original final fantasy...Maybe its beucase whne i played it i was really young and my brohter would never let me play for too long but jeez i got so lost. Alll I remember is flyign aroudn in a fricken air boat for hours.

i did beat mike tysons punch out tho...good game..good game.

 

[everman]

Snake's Revenge on the NES. I got it a "very" long time ago and remember it was very hard or confusing, something like that.
Another NES game I can't remember the name of, still have that too.
System Shock 2, maybe the tension got to me...actually I think it got a little too confusing at some point.

 

[EyeMWing]

I'm proud to say that every game I have played has been defeated (eventually). In a few cases it required my going back after YEARS and resuming a save

 

[Shlong]

Ikaruga had it on dreamcast

 

[Atomicus]

Dragonslayer , a gameboy game on this 105 in 1 cartridge

 

[eakers]

duck hunt

(did it even have an ending?!)