10 insanely tough games

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Battletoads
NES, 1991

At first glance, you could be forgiven for mistaking the stars of this NES hit for a certain other group of combative, anthropomorphic amphibians who were popular around the same time.
Presumably developer Rare decided the best way to differentiate their game from its Teenage Mutant inspiration was to make it eye-poppingly, controller-throwingly, brain-meltingly difficult. And don't think you'll make life easier by tackling it with a friend -- Battletoad's two-player co-operative mode makes the game harder still, because with just one mistimed attack you can k!ll your partner and have to start over. More than two decades after its release, it's still widely recognized as one of the hardest -- if not the hardest -- games ever made.

QWOP
PC/Flash, 2008

You probably think running is easy. After all, you learned to do it when you were two or three years old. Spend a bit of time playing the epically challenging flash game QWOP, though, and you'll walk away with a new appreciation for the complications of just moving your legs. A simple game with just four buttons -- one for each thigh, and one for each calf -- QWOP tasks you to run a hundred meters, but it'll take you many tries before you can even get off the line without winding up in a tangled heap.

Demon's Souls
PS3, 2009
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Dark, deep, and with a vicious streak a mile wide, action-heavy role-playing game Demon's Souls (along with its 2011 sequel, Dark Souls) easily ranks as one of the hardest releases of the last few years. It's not just its overall difficulty that makes this such a beast, though: the game seems to delight in watching you die. Which you will do. A lot. Weirder still, you'll keep coming back for more, because while it's a serious grind, it's also a seriously good game.

Contra
NES, 1987
Classic side-scrolling shooter Contra holds a special place in the hearts of countless gamers of what, for the sake of sensitivity, we'll call "a certain age." Released in the late 80s amid the heady heyday of video game arcades and the NES, Contra's simultaneous two-player mode was a real novelty at the time -- and its grueling difficulty level meant that if you and a pal could complete the whole thing, you'd be chums for life. There's nothing like shared adversity to build friendship.


The Oregon Trail
Various, 1974-1985

Bane of many a fifth-grader, The Oregon Trail was one of the first educational video games to start showing up in schools during the 1970s. Intended to teach us about the harsh realities of life as a pioneer in the 1800's, it mainly taught us that the road out west is littered with corpses.
Between dysentery, cholera, exhaustion, snakes, drowning, and countless other hazards, the chances of any given member of your party making it to the end of your journey from sea to shining sea were pretty darn slim. Doubtless life as a real-life Old West pioneer wasn't all beer and Skittles, but there's no way it was as tough as it is in The Oregon Trail.

The Heist
iOS, 2011

Beautiful, creative, and so difficult it will make you weep, iOS puzzler The Heist is well worth the mental gymnastics it'll take you to make it to the end. Why? Because there's a prize. Not a dumb screen saying "Thank you, but our princess is in another castle," but a genuine, for-real, worth-actual-money sort of prize. What is it? That'd be telling. Play the game and find out -- if you don't tear your hair out first.

Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels
Famicom, 1986

Mario is as big as it gets with Western audiences, but this 1986 follow-up to Super Mario Bros., which was initially released in Japan as Super Mario Bros. 2, would never be released in the U.S. on the NES.
Why? Because Nintendo thought it was too difficult for Western audiences. And perhaps they were right, because it's a platforming nightmare. If you think you're up to the challenge, however, you can find the game as a 600-point download on the Wii's Virtual Console or on the Super Mario All-Stars compilation.

Trials HD
Xbox Live Arcade, 2009

Ever wondered what it's like to be a motorcycle trials rider? Frustration after frustration after frustration, if this Xbox Live Arcade smash — or its recent sequel Trials: Evolution -- is anything to go by.
We'd normally praise Trials HD for its clear objectives and dialed-in controls, but here it just makes things worse: you can always see where you're meant to be, and your bike does what you tell it to do. When you fail, you have nobody to blame but yourself. And just to add insult to injury, the game will be only too happy to tell you how much better your online friends are than you.

Ghosts 'n Goblins
Arcade/NES, 1985

When Sir Arthur, star of classic arcade platformer Ghosts 'n Goblins, takes a hit, his armor disappears, leaving the unfortunate knight skipping around nothing but his heart-print boxers. Tee hee! Unfortunately, the ensuing childish grin was soon wiped off the faces of most players when they realized said boxers were now the only thing between them and the relentless hordes of the living dead. And boy, are there ever a lot of them. Originally an arcade game, it was widely converted to home platforms -- and if you fancy a challenge, it's on the Wii's Virtual Console service.

I Wanna Be The Guy
Flash, 2007

Do you wanna be the guy? Of course you do. Everybody wants to be the guy. Trouble is, being the guy ain't easy -- as this celebrated freeware game aptly demonstrates.
Clad in the mantle of a classic 8-bit adventure game, IWBTG will amuse you with its slew of homages to and in-jokes from all kinds of classic games. And then it'll push you to the floor, steal your lunch money, and give you a good, old-fashioned, 8-bit butt-kicking. Not only are you not the guy, you probably aren't even fit to shine his shoes.

Another whack[..] yahoo list. -__-

you can tell a 38 y.o. made this list.

haha the pc only has stupid flash games! Suck it pc wimps where is your "master race" now? hahahahaha

Nice thread cause its actually about games not consoles.

1. FF12 1 reason, Yiazmat its hit points is a 50 million ...takes hours to beat him.

2 of couse Ninja Gaiden nuff said

3. Cabal arcade

4. God of War 1 Kratos clones on titan mode

Surprised Ninja Gaiden wasn't up there

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Someone is really mad

The Honorable EatDat!!445:

I'm the only one I know that's actually beaten Lost Levels. That !! was a k!ller.

Edit: And !! the QWOP game. I don't know how but I always get the guy to start moonwalking and !!. [pic]

Battletoads was the first game I ever played in my life!

Don't even think I ever passed the third level. [pic]

Might have to pull out the emulator and see how far I can get lol

Contra mad easy

I can beat the original NES game without dying [pic]

Ha, me either. I couldnt jump right on them bikes. Everytime I jumped I either missed (how df u miss the landing in a 2d game???) or smacked one of them pillars. Mind you I was like 8 or 9 back when that game came out. I still got that cart in a box somewhere.

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[pic] all these old[..] games

Demon's Souls just isn't as hard as it's made out to be after the first two levels.

the lost levels were ridiculous [pic]

HARDEST VIDEO GAMES EVER LIST: All NES games

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Expected Oregon Trail and GnG to be on this list. I always forget about I wanna be the guy. Hate that !! with a passion.

It's so hard, it's hateful. [pic]

I just tried QWOP. First 15 minutes, my best was 2.9 meters. Then I got the rhythm down to start skipping, and got to 5.1 meters, before the dudes upper torso dipped back, and he did a Flash/pele kick before conking his head on the ground.

And I'd have to nominate Ninja Gaiden Black and Shinobi to be honorable mentions. !! it, Throw in Megaman 9 while we're at it.

yah contra and ghost and goblins weren't that hard. No Dark Souls on this list that game was a pain in the[..] to beat.

what are you, 10 years old? !! off

nothin felt worst than playing GnG working your hardest to pass that one level and after hours of playing when u die the game just taunts u by showing you how much more u had to go [pic]