There’s just no reason to play this punishing game, which is really a shame considering the other versions of this arcade classic are actually quite good. NES gamers eventually realized that most NES ports of arcade games were going to be a shell of their former selves that typically only retained the crushing difficulty, but Gauntlet abuses the privilege of forgiveness typically afforded to these titles. The rest of us never made it past the Technodrome. However, it uses excellent graphics, good music, and the strength of its developer’s name to cover its nearly impossible jumps, terrible resource system, and crippling framerate issues.īy the time most of us reached the infamous swimming level that required you to be accurate and fast in a game designed to offer neither of those concepts, we realized we’d been had. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a fundamentally poorly designed game. Konami eventually got Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles right (which is a statement that really ages this era of gaming), but their debut effort is the reason many people don’t trust licensed games to this day. It’s an absolutely devious piece of game design that leads you to believe the game is fairer than it really is. However, there’s no way to practice for Tyson’s punching pattern the first time around, and reaching him again makes you navigate such extreme levels of difficulty that “lesser” fighters can actually make you worse. By the time you reach the Mike Tyson fight, it assumes that you must be a literally perfect player. To make matters worse, this game basically treats your accomplishments with a level of spite typically only seen in house cats. That makes it nearly impossible for anyone to really learn the game at a reasonable pace. The problem with Punch-Out!! is that every new set of fighters essentially bumps up the game’s difficulty setting by a couple of levels. Some are good, some are bad, but for one reason or another, these are the absolute hardest NES games ever made. Those are the games we’re going to look at today. The hardest NES games weren’t just difficult: they were nightmarish excursions into another world where demands for perfect inputs met fundamentally unforgiving (and sometimes simply terrible) game design. The absurd difficulty of the average NES game can be attributed to a variety of factors, but the fact remains that there’s a reason the term “NES Hard” exists in the gaming lexicon. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.With the recently released Cyber Shadow, publisher Yacht Club Games (the studio behind the brilliant Shovel Knight) prove that they’re the masters of revitalizing those brutally difficult NES games that defined an era and haunt gamers to this day. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue.

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