My Top 10 Hardest NES Games! 

I know TMR, he's a legend in streamer circles lol

I wanted the miracle piano so bad as a kid, my cousin got it for Christmas and never touched it outside of the week after Christmas but he wouldn’t let me play, borrow or have it… years later I asked what happened to it and he said he broke the piano while filming a vhs video acting like he was nirvana and smashing instruments well in this case instrument because it was the only one he had I was so upset hearing that, what a douche and to boot he doesn’t even have the vhs of the dastardly act anymore When I was a kid if I had a game I didn’t like I either used it as trade bait or lent it out to a Friend in hopes I could borrow a better game, wizards and warriors was one of those games I owed that I constantly lent out and got back better games lol

@@FrankBeingFrankomg what an idiot! I was never a fan of Nirvana anyways. I’d love to have that piano, as well! I’ve seen the game cart out in the wild, but never the piano.

First name that came up to me!

I had Abadox and I can confirm. Game is hard

But God is it a good game.

Yes! It is definitely one of the hardest on nes. Top three hardest! Yet NOBODY, except you and I, seems to mention it.

@duranduran6456 Probably because the game is somewhat obscure. "Hardest games" lists usually only have well-known games like Battletoads and TMNT.

@@duranduran6456 I actually mentioned in a 10 NES Games You Should Play episode! It's BEYOND cool that they hybrid mixed vertical and horizontal, because I believe the only other one I've seen do it (efficiently) was Salamander/Life Force

So far for me it's just GNG lol

Metroid is rather irritating to me.

Thank you :)

I think that Battletoads is a fairly decent game 100%

On a fundamental level, Deadly Towers is a mistake.

Thank you!

Festers isn't AS bad if you use a turbo controller. Hell, it even says in the manual that you should lol.

Fester's Quest was great. Turbo made it playable. Without it, you were cannon fodder.

Which is a great sign of a wonderful game!

Thank you! I'm glad you learned something today:)

Soooo bad haha

It's like that in EVERY single one as well. But I will say, I tend to find loop 2 slightly easier because you know what to expect.

Zelda 2 isn't that difficult if you Level up accordingly

And lowkey kind of boring too lmao. I wonder if Equinox was better.

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

And for some reason it ends up on lists all the time. As if people have some weird echo chamber for the games out there.

Thank you!

@@Fortefyre welcome

That's an incredible accomplishment!

Oh! You HAVE to go back and try to beat CV, just abuse the hell out of holy water and doublers lol.

I'd try to not use it, honestly I try to avoid cheats period unless the game absolutely powerfists me into dust lol

@@Fortefyre that’s understandable lol.

Now I'm intruiged.

@@Fortefyre Koei, Enix and Square had great games back then. While they did extremely well in Japan, their games didnt sell that well in North America. In all fairness, people dont know the definition of ''NES hard' until they beat one of their NES games. Dragon Quest 2 is known as the toughest game in the franchise. Even then, Koichi Nakamura acknowledged the level of difficulty due to him hiring younger programmers and his failure to delegate the work properly, leading to a difficult game to the point they changed the experience system to give out more experience points later in the game. I cite the Rhone cave as the toughest dungeon Ive ever encountered in an RPG. With all the ways to go around in circles and all the trap tiles, and no map to see where everything is, its a tough one (so try doing it without a walkthrough). Not too many people have heard of Bandit King of Ancient China. Even an experienced player that knows what he is doing will find it challenging. The worst thing Yoichi Erikawa did was make a rule where you had to get an Imperial Edict to execute Gao Qiu. The game is tough enough. Making you basically control half of China before you can attack province 23 makes the game even tougher (I argue that it adds another 10 years to the game). I know when I play it, I typically finish with 3 years to spare (barely making the deadline). Nowadays, the game is more expensive to get your hands on then it was when it first came out (a mint condition copy of this game, with the instruction book can cost $350).

@@Fortefyre Bandit Kings of Ancient China was typical of Koei's early games. Yoichi Erikawa left a very steep learning curve in his games when he did almost all of the programming and design of his games. Even if you knew what you were doing, you would still be challenged. Bandit Kings of Ancient China is no exception to that, and I consider it to be Koei's toughest game. Its actually very rare to find an NES cartridge copy of this game, Ive heard they sell for over $400 (in mint condition with everything). Dragon Quest/Warrior 2 was well admitted by Koichi Nakamura himself as being difficult. They even added more experience points to the monsters later on in the game just because they noticed the difficulty, and its still a difficult game. Its a game that starts off at a decent pace if youve played an RPG before, but as you play deeper into the game, youre in for a ride. The Rhone Cave is well documented for its difficulty, and as I said, beating this game without a walkthrough is a challenge. Think about how hard this game was back in 1987 (it wasnt released until 1990 in North America).

Takeshi's Challenge is a famicom title which isn't considered for this particular episode :)

Indeed!

Thank you!

I haven't made it past the turbo tunnel hahaha

I haven't messed around with it yet lol

I haven't dabbled in it as much as I would want, but like the 2nd stage lmao

As it should be, an easy GnG game would be concerning.

Almost every board is rough. It's a game of attrition in my opinion lol

Par for the course lmao.

Haha, well it is a Shinobu Yagawa game, same guy would do on to make Ibara lmao.

CONGRATURATION THIS STORY IS HAPPY END THANK YOU

Ffs I have HORRID Freudian slips. I was playing river city girls with my son lmao

I couldn't get into Super Ghouls n' Ghosts, it runs horrible lmao.

It's certainly the best at ruining my day lmao.

I will!

Eh. I found the technodrome to be poorly designed lol

LMAO. Tradewinds was the name of the rental property we used to check out in Gulf Shores. Damn. Got me good!

They even suggest in the manual to use a turbo controller lmao

I don't tend to use memes that often, but if I do, I edit them appropriately for the games lmao. I think I've done it twice in my whole career.

@@Fortefyre it’s nice to not have them. I watch these old NES to remember my childhood, not to be annoyed by memes that reference 2015 or sooner.

I could see that!

Facts lmao

You read my mind, but like 2 months ago, lol.

It's like a more mature Soltice to me lol

Honestly, one you have the strategy for what turtles to sacrifice at the dam and rescue on the air field level, it's not had.

The arcade game actually came out after the NES game. NES Battletoads came out in 1991. The arcade Battletoads came out in 1994

Big facts!

That's what I thought.

Great Idea!

Oh absolutely!

Oh wow!

wow, the last part of ninja gaiden I found impossible and just gave up, congrats

Hi there! I don't intend on doing just Top 10's no, in fact I never saw myself being a "list based" producer in any way. I much prefer telling the story of video game history over 10 lists, because they are stupid easy to make, but now that I have been streaming for 6 years, and I have enough of a backlog figured out, with a ranking system that aligns with it, I'm able to make them, so if I have 10 games that fit a bill for bad or good, I'll make a video. Other projects I work on include: Ready Go Gaming Show: LONG, longform videos about video game history, if you want to watch this, understand the first 5 episodes were me trying to edit for the first time in my life, some videos are good, some are just information vomit, but I enjoy them. Generations: This is my favorite project, it's a deep-dive into each generation, I'm scripting Generation 4 right now. Legends: Occasionally I get to speak to industry figureheads, it's a new series :) System Shock: One stop shop for everything you would need for a system, info, troubleshooting, etc. Series Slayer: If I beat a series, I review the whole thing. I'd like to get back into reviewing individual games, I might do that actually.

Friendly fire in a beat-em-up is a sin.

I hate deadly towers lol

Wow! Really?

Haha, I did it anyway.

don’t get it wrong though the arcade game is trashy too

Most SNK games hold a major part of our memories in gaming.

That game needs more like an entire surgical team to fix it, not a patch 😂

I hate hone ports of narc were jankkkk

I need to get the rest of the Ninja Gaiden games myself.

It took me forever to figure out there WERE warps lol

Konami did have a masochistic reputation haha

You bet!

I like your style lol

Absolutely! If you want to check out more Zapper games, I do have a video dedicated to it on the channel! I covered all official nes zapper titles, some unlicensed, and even some homebrews!

I was right there with you! That game was rough

Sounds like a decent collection!

LMAO right?

@@Fortefyre Absolutely! 🤣🤣 It's very easy to see how they are distinct in their design, just look at their frame rate in every game! Look at how much those characters can move! How broken their controls are! They beat in their own drum, and NOT in a good way!

What about the Miracle Piano Teaching System :P

Both great choices for hardest NES games!

I envy you!

Whaaaat? Wowww

Yeah Demonhead can be gnarly, I mean most Vic Tokai games are lmao.

Oh lord that game lmao

Absolutely! It's so beyond obnoxious.

I LOVE Abadox lol. I did use a NES Advantage for it though. I KNEW there had to be something special about the paddle controller!

Came looking for this comment. With the special controller the game makes total sense

Honestly, it's that ONE jump that kills the run.

I need to play it at somepoint.

You might be on to something lmao.

Ahhh gotcha. I guess it made the paddle move at a level that was not natively capable with the NES controller.

@@Fortefyre It's the same kind of movement as in the arcade version. With the paddle knob, you can instantly move the bar (Vaus as it's actually called in the game) from one side of the screen to the other, for those really fast balls or if one happened to hit any of the floating things and change its direction without warning, or move it very slowly over a tiny bit for precise aiming or to predict where the ball(s) might end up after bouncing around in levels like 10 or 21 or 32 where you need to hit it at just the right angle to get it back up there and lasers won't help at all. With the controller, aiming is harder and after a while you just can't keep up, even if you do know where the ball is going.

I did :)

I would just use a turbo controller to be honest lol

@@Fortefyre thats what we did when we were able to convince our parents to stop treating us like peasents. But, for a handful of years, we preteens just had to do it the old fashion way

It truly was.

I much prefer the Amiga era of gaming tbh.

For 1984, Ghostbusters was good. It may have been simple, but considering the C64, it was a good game. David Crane delivered. By the time the NES came around, there were more complex games, and Ghostbusters looked primitive.

Wow!

I found driving easier on Master System by a good sight. You don't have to manage fuel, and if you buy the ghost vacuum for your car, they're basically free money. You can also continue on to new loops on the Master System, retaining your remaining cash and such from the previous.

It's truly a gift to spend time with her. She's so smart and sweet.

To get friends, you must have blissful ignorance on the existence of annoying people haha

It really is.

And it doesn't help it's absolutely horrible lol

@@Fortefyre yeah it's one of the worst games i can think of as oposed to battletoads and ghost and goblins they had awesome level design and music they were just very hard. This one sadly had nothing going for it.

Facts!

It almost made the list!

Yeah it's just as rough. Weird one too!

That jump at the last few levels is a FIEND.

It's ridiculously hard lol.

Indeed! I had to use a map, I didn't have the time nor patience to deal with the bs.

I'm considering doing full-scale reviews for games I've beaten. Obviously none of the gimmicks like AVGN, he's earned that right and all but crafted an entire era around it, but it's better than my 1 hour reviews I was doing.

Isn't it great!

I don't think anyone did, there's a reason why there isn't a deadly towers 2 lol

@@Fortefyre god damn game lol

🤣 I'll bear that in mind!

You are a special breed of badass lol

Eh lol.

It really does!

Only the racing obstacle coarse is hard. The rest of the game is quite fun and not that hard, in my opinion.

it gets harder faster than Jared Fogle in an elementary school

So at some point, I'll cover Famicom games:)