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Recently I've been playing KOF 2001 and the final boss is just about unstoppable. That leads me into my question.

What do you think is the hardest game you have ever played? This excludes games that are just so crappy that they aren't playable. Remember, there's a difference between a hard game and a badly designed game.

I would say Ninja Gaiden 2. I met a guy who claimed he could beat it once and that it really wasn't that hard. He also claimed he was a choo-choo train.

My Hero for the Sega Master System. I got past the first level, but couldn't go beyond. The game not being a lot of fun helped in my decision to stop.

Hm.. tough one. Rygar on the NES was pretty damn hard. I'd still say Radiant Silvergun is maybe the hardest in terms of beating it with a set amount of continues and not the free play option.
Whos the boss at the end of KOF 2001? U.Rugal? He's a cheap bastard.

The boss at the end of 2001 is Igniz. Rugal is a wimp compared to him. I beat Rugal in like 4 or 5 tries. This guy took me about 50, and even then it was just because I got lucky. But no worries, I played him repeatedly from a save state for 3 days straight until I found the ultimate strategy for defeating him (without exploiting any glitches either). It works every time, as long as you don't do the wrong move all the time because you suck at using a joystick (like me).

I still never have successfully destroyed the reactor and escaped in the arcade version of "Gravitar" in MAME.

Gravitar? Sounds interesting. Going to have to try that.

I never beat Moon Patrol for MAME or 2600. Tried like hell just can't do it.

Life Force is unbelievably diffucult.  I have never got past the second stage withouit using the Konami Code.

SMB the lost levels is hard to, but that's because Nintendo made it artificially harder by messing with the controls.  Cock smokers....

Lost levels controlls were not that  bad and with the remake it is wicked easy because you can save.

You guys ever see the web site where people beat video games in record times? I forget the name of it now, there was a guy who could beat Super Mario Bros. in like 3 minutes. Also one who beat Contra in less than 6 I believe. The videos are pretty amazing.

The guy who beat SMB in 3 minutes cheated. I think i saw he used slo-mo. But ya ive seen that video.
Do you have the link for the site?

yeah it was a fake, it took longer to fake the video than it would to have practiced long enough to have done it in a reasonable time

Contra is just pretty much memorization.  I haven't played that game in a bunch of years and I can still get through most of the game in just one life.

For me, it would be Ninja Gaidan for the Xbox.

Life Force is really hard. I didn't even think of that one. I think I've gotten past the second level though. In fact, I'm pretty sure I've gotten to the 4th. It's still not as hard as Ninja Gaiden (NES).

There was a fake one and then a real one I think for SMB. It must not have been 3 minutes, maybe 5 or 6.
No I cant find that damn link for some reason.

Oh wait shit no. Not Ninja Gaiden fuck man Steel battalion is a shit load harder than Ninja Gaiden.

The hardest game I have ever played would be Bubsy bobcat on the Genesis.  Its too long for me to even attack anymore.

As for Ninja Gaiden 2, my friend Dan beat the trilogy (nes) in sequence, 97 times last year.  He feels that its a tramatic experience to lose a life on any of the levels.

I must see this before I believe it. Is there anyway you could send me a video?

Actually, I don't find that to hard to believe.  Once you memorize the stages, it gets alot easier.  I know that I can get through most of the first Ninja Gaiden on one or two lives.

I thought Ninja Gaiden II wasn't that hard really, and I was able to beat it, the first one however is a different story.. And about the mario video welcome to the world of speed runs and time attacks, here's a link, enjoy!! :)

http://home.comcast.net/~arcthelad/

is Ninja Gaiden really this hard? http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-03-08&res=l

Yes, yes it is.

(Funny thing is I didn't even have to check the link and I know which pa comic it is.)

I beat Ninja Gaiden on very hard today. After much, much swearing. I am now a highly trained wall running bastard.

Impressive, I still haven't beaten it yet, and when I play there can be heard more swearing than you could image coming from one person.

Here are more of those "tool-assisted" game movies:

http://bisqwit.iki.fi/jutut/nesvideos/

You'll need Bit Torrent to download them.

If you want more information on Gravitar, take a look at the Gravitar website:

http://www.cooganphoto.com/gravitar/
- dedicated to the 1982 Atari classic video arcade game Gravitar.
Hints and playing tips with screen captures, etc. included...

I think Viewpoint is damn hard, never got past act 4. The extra lives are useless as it's impossible to complete the game without extra weapons.

Jungle Book (SNES) is WAY to hard for a Disney game.