What are the hardest NES games?
 

I found a copy of Silver Surfer for NES at a junk store the other day, and have been having a hard time trying not to punch the TV screen every time I play it. Seriously, what the hell is this? The Surfer dies so damn easily. This is pretty damn hard and annoying, but is nothing when compared to Battletoads. Awesome game, yet so f***ing hard.

So yeah, what are the hardest NES games you have played?

Hardest one I've played would definately go to Abadox. Like the Surfer one you mention, the hero in Abadox dies easily (-one hit- and he's a goner). Had to use an 'invincibility' cheat code to be able to see the whole game through.

You can't beat Friday the 13th without some kind of code. I know this for a fact.

Oh, and Yo-Noid! Anyone remember that game? RIDICULOUS.

Had read about Yo Noid, but never played it. Though, that did remind me of another strange game (that I had rented at one time).

Cool Spot (yeah, it's SNES, but while thinking of it wanted to make note). Another crazy advertising videogame.


While on this again, and to get on topic, will note a couple others I had gotten for NES that were weird.

Deadly Towers

3-D World Runner

Ghosts n Goblins (getting the "good" ending) and Adventure Island are the hardest NES games I own. Anyone actually ever beat the original Adventure Island? Furthest I ever got was like 5-1 and that was when I was a kid.

You hit the nail right on the head there. Battletoads is one of my all-time favourite games and it's one of the most ridiculously difficult gameplay experiences I've ever come across. Strangely, unlike most other hard-ass games, this one never gets old or tedious.

I remember renting Yo Noid! So many times and I got almost to the end and kept getting a game over at the pizza game because it was so hard and I was so young back also.

Ninja gaiden 1 and 3
battletoads
castlevania 2


these are the 3 i can think of

why i said ninja gaiden 1 and 3.. well the game is so easy for ninja gaiden 1 until you get to the final levels.. they are a pain.. 3 is hard like 1 and you don't get unlimited contuines

about castlevania 2, there is no way you can beat this without a guide. it's that hard.

battletoads.. i'm not saying much but let met give you a level

level 3- bike level

that is one hard level. trust me.

TMNT...

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.....damn that water level...

The bomb-diffusing?! I found that one rather easy. It's the next level (with the Turtle Wagon) that was a pain for me (could never get past that).

I actually did beat Castlevania 2 without a guide lol. Most of the stuff where you have to have a certain part equipped I discovered by accident.

i WHOLE heartedly agree. i hated the water level. i love that game to death but the water level got me every time. i dont know that i ever got past it. :(

Hardest NES game I ever played was TMNT. I rarely passed that water level. And even if I could, there's this one sewer with a tricky jump that I could never get passed in the 3rd world.
Megaman (can't remember which game).

Also, Battletoads: Level 3, I could NEVER get passed, no matter how much I rented that game.

Street Fighter, I could never beat the first enemy. Glad they never made a Street Fighter II...oh wait... At least Street Fighter II was good, even if they do have 20 SF II's...

Last Action Hero, I never got passed the first level.

Super Mario Bros. I can get pasted 8-1, and sometimes 8-2, VERY RARELY 8-3, but that last Hammer Brother in 8-4, just before Bowser...never got passed him without a powerup, which I always got hit, then Bowser finishes off Little Mario...

And these games aren't in order...

Little Nemo: The Dream Master.

Now, this might just be because I was really young when I played it, but I absolutely loathed that game. I was just got destroyed so quickly. If I went back to it now it probably wouldn't be as hard.

I also had a lot of trouble with Ghosts N' Goblins. I don't think I ever made it passed the second level, to be honest.

Solstice, anyone? Hardest/weirdest/worst/best game ever?

I will get behind you on that 100%. No other game has made it into my daily vocabulary.

In case anyone is wondering, the word Solstice now replaces sh*t. When I say something is sh*t, I literally say "That's solstice!".

I've been known to say that quite a few times, myself. It is quite the word replacement.

Only the third level was super hard for me. If I ever got past that level, the rest of the game was a breeze. And I was really young then too.

dragons lair. one of the few games where i died after 5 seconds of play.
its only 4 levels, but i never got past boss 3

Monster Party was damn hard, and damn weird.

HAHA! YES! I can't even get over the drawbridge on the first screen without dying.

The original Metal Gear (EFF THAT GAME)
Wizards and Warriors (though I ended up beating it)
Battletoads (The Jet-bike...things level is proof that depth perception on the NES is ASS)

Battletoads is indeed hard.. Castlevania the origianl is hard also, i can get very far till the end.. Gyruss is another.

Battletoads level 3 is a pain, once you get past that there are many levels after even harder.. the jet level with the fire things coming up and down.. ugh!

My vote goes to Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular. I've never in my life figured out how to do the pole vaulting. I'm sure that's not what anyone wanted to hear/think about, but that's my answer. Take it or leave it. :)

Definitely. The thing is, most people reach the hover bike level and give up because of the insane difficulty. But the levels after that never let up, either -- we're not talking just a fluke, here. Each level really is exponentially more difficult than the last. After about four hours of non-stop memorizing that side-scrolling jet level had me doing stuff I never thought I could do.

As I have said, Battletaods level three, but I must add to it. I played the rom and beat the game with a save state, and...on my god that game is f'ing HARD! Expecially the one where you out to out race the 3rd rat, then the level right after took me five hours to pass!

But when I thought of hard games the Angery Video Game Nerd should review, one name, one game pops into mind. Solar Jetman, the hardest f'ing game of all f'ing time. Don't believe me? Play it youself. You'll barely get passed the first level, but try to get passed the second...

I used to own that game :p um it's not that all hard, you just have to understand this game uses gravity and all that so you got to be easy on the button that accerlates. I never beaten solar jetman but i got far.

Also, about the 3rd level jet bike, when your jumping on the rocks near the end, don't push the a button the moment you touch the next island, you slide for a bit then push the a button

i figured that out.

the side scrolling games requires memorizations..

also solar jetman and battletoads was made by rare. There is another hard nes game by rare..

Snake rattle and roll

Rare made Solar Jetman? Yeah they better of run off to Microsoft with their tails between their legs before I found that out -.-

Used to be one of my favourite games when I was very, very young. It's hard, but fun as Hell.

here

http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/company/10607.html

this will tell you what games rare made and what year.. enjoy

btw, adventure of lolo is hard.

the puzzles are tough.

also mega man 1 is the hardest mega man game I think of the 6.. the yellow devil boss takes the top rank of all bosses in mega man 1 and you can beat it by using that pause glitch.

Wizards and Warriors hard? What are you talking about? That's one of the easiest NES games. You have infinite continues from the exact spot you died. The original MegaMan is also not that bad. 3 is much harder than the original if you play it the correct way (only plasma cannon unless required, no controller 2 hacks, and no E tanks.) The Doc Bots are insanely hard. Damn Flashman's uber glitch hacks of voiding your invincibility period. The original actually does require one weakness and that's using rolling cutter on Elecman when you face him in Wily 2. It's impossible to dodge most of his shots without platforms. One of the biggest things that makes me laugh though is when people say the Yellow Devil is hard in the original. I can easily beat him without taking damage using no pause glitch (I don't even know how it works actually) and using the plasma cannon. Now the Yellow Devil in MegaMan 3 is tough. I have yet to figure out a way besides Rush Jet to avoid his all at once transfer from left to right and it does lots of damage. I slide under it perfectly and for some reason it hits me every time. Adventures of Lolo is easy compared to 3 as well. 3 is 20 times harder than the original. Anyone ever play the original Japanese Lolo game though? It was called Eggerland and was for Famicom Disk System. Very good game, my favorite of the Lolo series. Instead of just the shots, you actually can pick up various other powers to use in certain levels. The 2nd japanese one for famicom is also truely awesome because it has a level constructer. Too bad it's just a combination of levels from Lolo 1 & 2. Gyruss.... I love that game. I came so close to beating it. Got to the last warp of the sun but couldn't manage to dodge all those sun blasts.

Right...cause Infinite Continues is totally synonmous with easy...or...you know...not.

By that logic, every arcade game ever made was easy because if you would keep pumping quarters in, you would eventually win. I'm just saying

True, but none of the game was particularly hard either. I beat the game the first game I had it. I had my share of continues but I still beat it with very little difficulty. Not a very good game though. Wizards and Warriors 2 was such a great game. The original was okay but nothing special. 3 was total crap unfortunately.

Oh god. I never really played many NES video games, but you can't really rule out Contra, seeing as how it only took one hit to kill the player.

Oh ok well we have all different opinion on how hard or easy a game was to us.

I actually finished Gyruss a few times. it was a pain to get through but totally worth it.. Heck even after beating the game, you go through again on a harder difficuly.

What about Air Fortress? my gosh that game I never ever beaten.. Bigfoot, now the only way to beat that game is use that big nes joystick called the Nes Advantage. a few parts in the game had to make you push teh left and right button to get going.. So annoying.

You don't even know hard until you've tried to tackle Solomon's Key. That one took me years to finish.

Do they have that game up on Virtual Console yet?

I'll load it up later on and see why it's hard.

I had this game as a kid and never beat it. It gets insanely hard towards the end! I did beat in with save states on emulation..and the ending is terrible (unless you get all the secrets, which I've never done). I still love this one though...and yeah, it's on the VC.

Another vote for Battletoads here. The third stage isn't really all that hard compared to the later ones, especially the snakes!

Ninja Gaiden, I've beaten twice as a kid. I tried to beat it recently, and even with save states, couldn't do it.....

the snakes in battletoads was hard.

the raft level wasn't hard but the jet level is all i can get up to.

oh boy if my friend and i were still talking, we could have finished the game.

The rat race (3rd rat only), the Saw chase drain pipes, snakes, and the level before the final...god I'll never forgive those...

You... You actually got close to the final level of the game? If so, I salute you.