Bless you Jacks. I have never beaten the first Ninja Gaiden. It was BRUTAL! The whole business of playing through a level from the very beginning, falling into pits and especially those fucking birds and bats!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhh
Last year I gave it another shot and nearly punched through my screen in frustration. The most evil interval in the game is going through all three acts of the final stage and having to defeat two end bosses - without the benefit of a recharge in between. I hate this evil, evil game...because
At last others who remember the utter hell that was the last boss of the original Ninja Gaiden. I was a pro at it though, I was able to fly through all the levels but could never beat the second boss. I tried and tried and tried and finally gave up never beating the final boss
Then NG2 came out and I beat it in 1 day, I thought I would go back and try NG1 again only to break my controller in half. Ninja Gaiden was the first and only time I actually bugged out because my eyes shifted focus and I didn't interpret what I was seeing as 3D but just a flat 2D image...I couldn't clear a jump until I walked away for a half hour.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for the Atari was another game I never finished, not my fault either because the game kept having glitches.
Many of the orginal games for the NES were just unbeatable like most Atari games.
Hardest games to date...
DMC1-3 when difficulty is up'd (first lvl of first game was awfully hard the first time I played it)
God of War
Stuntman (never finished)
Mario Sunshine (collecting everything)
RE2 (to get everything)
Mike Tysons punchout (when playing with the controller upside down)
A lot of games are too easy, and the older games were hard because they lacked depth and most games would just never end. Thats why most of the games I have listed seem to come from a later time in my gaming life, older games were all hand eye coordination while newer games require more brain matter.
Dregun
