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Nintendo Hard: 6,349,778th Time's The Charm
Gosling
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Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, ProbablyWatertown, WIRegistered User regular
I don't believe I should have to explain what 'Nintendo hard' is, but for the uninitiated, something that is 'Nintendo hard' is a gaming task that is so unbelievably difficult that gamers will spend, literally, years trying to complete. A task to which the completion is regarded by the community as almost as good, or even better than, beating the game itself. The quintessial example is Battletoads and Turbo Tunnel. The game does not neccesarily have to be on a Nintendo console, but the term comes from the fact that most early examples were NES games.
This thread is a commemoration of such. What's Nintendo hard? Have you beaten anything Nintendo hard? How long did it take you?
I'll kick things off by saying it took me 15 years before I managed to do this in Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular:
There's a trick to it that I will spoiler just in case you don't want to hear it:
Your turn.
This thread is a commemoration of such. What's Nintendo hard? Have you beaten anything Nintendo hard? How long did it take you?
I'll kick things off by saying it took me 15 years before I managed to do this in Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular:
There's a trick to it that I will spoiler just in case you don't want to hear it:
Hold B to start the jump. Release B when you're at the peak of the jump. Tap B and you're going in the drink every time. Hold it too long and you're in the drink.
Your turn.
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Obligatory, but still so true. I think I can count the number of times I ever made it past the second level of that fucking TMNT NES game on two hands.
I never had that much trouble with the Turbo Tunnel in Battletoads. Or the bombs in TMNT.
Also fuck that dungeon with Zelda 1 with all the Wizrobes.
I sat down and forced myself to play it for like 14 hours straight.
I still don't really believe it's possible.
That skill died when MM3 introduced the slide and forever made me try to use that move in MM2.
It was the final screen of Metroid: Zero Mission when you beat it with 15% of items or less on Hard.
For anyone that has (or hasn't) played the game, it's the part where you jump from bouncey platform to bouncey platform, all the while avoiding the bats flying at your face, and then at the end (unless you know about it) you panic because of the fire and fall into the pit at least 100 times even AFTER you've mastered avoiding the bats. I nominate this as the hardest part of any game ever (excluded those obscure Japanese games that probably weren't meant to be beaten).
Also, beating Gunsmoke with my thumbs remaining intact.
I got platinum.
I keep screwing up the timing on his spin punch attack. I think I would've given up on any other game by now, but this one is too damn rewarding when you actually win.
Trying to land your F-14 for the first time.
I remember my dad and I tried for over a week. When all of a sudden he wakes me up, in the middle of the night, and showed me he had landed.
Damn That Part!!!
LIZ: Different.
VOICE-OVER: It's September 24th, I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life.
Oh shit, I remember that! I rented that game, and never landed once.
I know I must have landed it once as a kid because I remember the second level where you had to re-fuel in midair (or was that still the first level?), and holy crap was that ever hard.
Even thinking about it now is causing a huge grin to spread across my face.
YES. I was a very sad 8 year old playing this game, and loosing so many times on that one level.
Too bad I lost that memory card when I moved
Steam: MightyPotatoKing
Doc - The bombs.
Kurt Hectic - Too many Biffs. (The big soldiers with a single eye located in their belt buckle.)
Max - The Atomic Jetpack sequences (the second had a really great chill song though. Is it true Amon Tobin did the music to this game?)
First off, I could NEVER get the hang of turtle tipping, and even when I've had someone do it for me, I still can't get past 8-4. I don't know what it is.
Oh, also, I'd like to point out that the Lost Levels that came with Super Marios All Stars are insanely hard.
Beating that game took years off my life.
I wasn't even trying when I finally did it.
I was all like "OK, one more time, screw it, then I'll stop."
And I did it.
I actually completed The Lost Levels before I completed SMB. That may be because I spammed the one level where you can gain half a dozen 1ups for a few hours so I had plenty of lives to pass the last world.
Where Madness and the Fantasical Come to Play
- Getting over 1,000,000 points in Geometry Wars took me a year and a half.
Mine just seemed to be a luck out, the birds didnt seek me out as much as they had previously.
PSN ID - S-Starwind (Playing Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Gundam Battle Ops)
Final Fantasy XIV - Masamune Server (Moving to Sargantanas) - Rykosho Hoshikaze
Steam ID - The Starwind
MDK2 was insanely hard in certain parts.
That song becomes less chill when it's "Ode to the 50th Fucking Time, You Ass."
I actually had to get one of my siblings to get Tidus's ultimate weapon.
Super Mario RPG, I forget what you got for it, but there was some prize for getting some very large number of hits on Mario's super jump ability... that took maaaaaany many tries.
I am a freaking nerd.
LIZ: Different.
VOICE-OVER: It's September 24th, I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life.
Probably because I'm more relaxed during the "one more time and then I'll quit" round.
At least you could kick dogs.
I mean, just the fact that you can't rapid-fire yourself at the boss until you get it right. Every time I get there, I am substantially more badass on the way up, and then die horribly while hurting the boss 1/50th of a health bar more. It's just so hard to get used to the boss patterns when you keep getting kicked to the beginning.
I'm still on level 5.
Altered Beast is the taint of my childhood.
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Oh, and I found it on Wikipedia just now. I thought it was Amon Tobin for some reason.
Awesome.
The platforms.
I still have nightmares.