kane_magus | "Hardest Video Games We Have Beaten"

"What are the most difficult games we have played and beaten? We discuss some that come to mind!"

For me, the hardest games I've beaten were probably ones I used to have for the old school, gray brick, Game Boy. As a kid, I used to own a bunch of them and beat all of them. What I was most proud of was my eventual ability, now almost assuredly atrophied to the point of nonexistence, to beat Castlevania: The Adventure and Castlevania: Belmont's Revenge clean, without taking a hit. I don't recall if I ever did it without taking a hit, but Bram Stoker's Dracula was a pretty hard one, too. Oh, and of course, Battletoads in Ragnarok's World, which I think was a (slightly easier?) port of the original NES game (whereas just Battletoads on Game Boy, which I've never played, was its own thing, from what I can tell).

But then, there were the actually broken/poorly designed/not-really-worth-beating-in-the-end games that I still somehow managed to beat, such as Pit Fighter (yes, Pit Fighter was on Game Boy) or Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly or The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Juggernauts or Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone (the other two Double Dragon games on Game Boy weren't all that bad). For that matter, Castlevania: The Adventure could also possibly fall into this category (aside from the "not really worth it" bit).

Oh, and beating Tetris on B-Type Level 9 High 5. That was some shit, let me tell you. Or, at least, it could be, if the RNG decided to fuck you, which it very often did, more often than not.