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It's Crash Bandicoot for me cuz I never played anything else out of these. I don't think I ever played the Super Mario Lost Levels either and you would think so because I've been on a site known for the loads of Mario fan games and you would have completely thought that something like this would have been inserted. Unfortunately Nintendo took it over.
I played the heck out of that game. There was couple parts that drove me nuts tho I think the worst was after the monkeys riding on the rino part and having to keep redoing all that.
SNES version isn't even hard. You get to restart every level. Lives do not matter at all. Original version you restart at the beginning of the world if you game over.
Even if they are hard and difficult (and sometimes gives us the scares in some), these games are definitely nostalgic and especially created memories that we enjoy and cherish as children back in those days.
I played Lion King obsessively as a kid. Got to where I could beat it quickly. I still have the game today and have yet to see any of my kids finish it. I'm proud of myself lol
Before watching the SNES Star Wars games better be on here . The empire strikes back is INSANELY TOUGH. But, I’m sure battle toads will be in the top 3
I just recently played Super ESB on an emulator and got stuck on the Luke on Cloud City level because I needed the Force Jump powerup to get to a certain area. It was so annoying because I didn't know for the one Dagobah level I was supposed to look for and collect all the Jedi powerups.
Super Empire Strikes Back was a bitch, especially the Bespin levels with Chewbacca.The amount of timed double jumps was insane. I had bruised quads and stabbed my closet door frame with a compass so many times trying to beat that level. After that the final boss battles against Vader were not that difficult. Ironically enough it was Super Return of the Jedi that I never beat. Escaped the interior of the Death Star once into space but the fireball still caught the Millenium Falcon and blew it up.
@@scottstark5528 haha dagobah always whooped my ass and that damn swamp monster . Now surprisingly I thought ROTJ was a breeze! Haha . But I SUCK at the ESB, no doubt about it!
@@jimb.7523 yeah Dagobah is the worst dude . I HATED that level. Yeah you need that stupid “jump” ability which really is just flying around the map hahaha .
Really, Super Castlevania IV? I've always felt like that was a cakewalk compared to some of the absolute demoniac difficulty of III, or the insane boss rush style of Order of Ecclesia.
I'd have to agree that Super CV4 shouldn't be on this list, as actually the 2nd Castlevania I ever finished (first was Simon's Quest which was hard not because of the gameplay but because they made it super obtuse) I would say the Dracula X remake for the Super Nintendo was way harder.
@@macgyver6999 I think for GameCube, but not sure. It came with some Super Smash Brothers game. You'd have to look up the video. Essentially they used the premade save to get the Stale Reference Manipulation, so they can either beat Ganon or warp to the credits in time (but they can't beat Ganon and see the credits in the same run).
Yeah, and then it was slightly tweaked for the SNES as Battletoads I’m Battlemaniacs and for the Game Boy as Battletoads in Ragnarok’s World. But yeah, Battletoads was that rare game that was actually harder on multiplayer than single player. Not only was there friendly fire (which was mercifully made optional in Battletoads and Double Dragon and Battletoads in Battlemaniacs), but continues were shared AND if one player required a continue, BOTH players had to start over at the beginning of the level.
I think it's the easiest out of every hard games list tbh but then Again my reaction time got very good once I started speedrunning smb1 this just my opinion though
Something to keep in mind is that the version of Lost Levels that appeared on Mario All-Stars was an easier version of the SMB2 game released in 1986 in Japan. The obvious enhancements being: 1) Which mushrooms were good vs poison was made more obvious 2) In the All-Stars version, when you continued you picked back up on the stage you died on. In the original Japanese version, you went back to stage 1 of the world you died on. So if you were on the castle level, back to stage 1 of that world you went. 3) You had to beat the game 8 times to unlock worlds A-D in the Japanese version, while in the All Stars version you reached them automatically after completing world 8 (if used a warp) or world 9 (if no warp was used).
I beat Super Mario Lost Levels, Myst, and Super Castlevania IV when I was a teen. Of those, only Myst posed a challenge to me. I used to beat Super Castlevania IV over and over again just for fun. It is still one of my favorite games of a time.
Lion King kicked my ass. if I remember correctly, my friend's mom called a hotline for tips to help! Eventually I beat it and I never understood until recently the impact that game had on others as well.
I think the difference is, that Dark Souls was curated and tweaked to be the exact difficulty it is. It's not supposed to be impossibly difficult. These games were insanely difficult because there were fewer dials to turn, so if you mess with one mechanic (AI aggression, player movement speed) the entire game gets upended
My fiancé claimed she wasn't a gamer. I bought the Aladdin/Lion King pack on Xbox. She ran through Lion King like it was nothing and said her and her brother had it growing up....she still says she's not a gamer lol.
In One of the two bridge levels in crash bandicoot you could actually walk on the rope all the way to the end avoiding all dangers. On the other one tho, you'd have to do the most precise jumps on the falling planks, so nerve wrecking but so damn fun
Myst wasn't that hard. I beat it when I was a kid with no walkthrough, and I'm not exactly a genius. If I recall, as long as you took the time to observe the world, both Myst and Riven were pretty good about giving you the answers to their puzzles.
Yes - for the most part the puzzles were logical/fair and didn't follow ridiculous moon logic. An adventure gamer of average skill/experience can usually beat Myst without a walkthrough. Riven is more difficult but there's only a few puzzles that really give people a lot of trouble. A better choice would have been the Discworld game but Watchmojo bases their lists on surveys so you don't usually find more esoteric choices on their 10 tens.
I thought the same thing. Only part of Myst that gave me trouble was the maze tunnel at the end. Riven I never got far in, but I didn't play if for very long before my brother moved away and took his PC.
Myst was ok, Riven though...especially the marble grid puzzle, all the clues for which were spread accross all the islands, including the one you can't get to yet, forcing you to guess. Definitely the hardest puzzle in the game.
90s Games made you want to play outside with friends, lol! I remember all of these, and man did you have to be patient to go far in any of these games.
I played and loved mist. I actually had enjoyed it so much that when it came out for the VR on the oculus, I didn't hesitate to buy it. By far one of the hardest games I have ever played, is still enjoyed to this day
My mom was a single mom, with 2 kids.. The Lion King came WITH my Sega Genesis in some early bundle/combo situation.. it was the ONLY game I ever had on the system.. it was the most insanely awesomely painfully beautiful experience that I had successfully suppressed until now so thanks jerks.. EDIT: P.S. Never made it back to Pride Rock 😩 usually got taken out by the giraffes.. (I was 3🤷🏾♂️) only ever played with teen Simba maybe 15-20 times out of like 2000 attempts 🤦🏾♂️
I've often felt Super Star Wars was harder than Super Empire Strikes Back & unlike Super Empire Strikes Back & Super Return of the Jedi, lacked a password system. The Lion King I thought was fun (with or without the BARRY code on Super Nintendo) & I've played both the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis versions of that. As a kid, I had a tough time with Can't Wait To Be King (the ostrich parts were very frustrating) & Hakuna Matata (the waterfall area specifically), but I got better as I got older. Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels... I'm actually surprised Angry Video Game Nerd hasn't done an episode on it already as I feel a lot of people would feel the way he would. 2/3 of these games on this list that I have played, I have beaten by playing through every level.
As a kid you got one game if you were lucky back then, you didn't read reviews because you had no money to buy the magazine's, so you go off the artwork on the cover and pictures etc on the back. I unfortunately choose battle toads in 91/92 and got completely stuck when it came to the bike level. Just my luck to pick that one 😒
For the 2000s Constantine should definitely be on there. The game is super easy, including Mammon, but the angel Gabriel was almost impossible without cheating on any difficulty.
I did beat myst and yes it took a long a** time to do it and several notebooks worth of notes and trying to work out the puzzles. I loved every minute of it. I want more games like it to come out
Seeing that Lion King game is giving me some ptsd. My word, did I struggle with that game as a kid. I remember finding out about that cheat code BARRY, my experience changed drastically lol
Fun Fact about the "Contra: Hard Corps": The Japanese version is much better, because unlike in the english version, you have 3 HP, not just 1, making the game much more easier. You could use your favorite weapon, until you have only 1 HP, then switch to the less favorite one, not feeling sorry if you lose it. Furthermore, if you finished the stage with 1 HP, you will start the next stage with full, 3 HP.
I remember two games on pc back in the 90's that was so hard. The first one is Extreme Assault, omg. Loved how they maked that game and hope its coming another type of that game soon. The second is the RTS Incubation.
I got super ghouls and ghosts Christmas 1991 with my super NES/Mario world it was the only other game I owned for a few months and I was so determined and obsessed I beat it within a month once through anyways,not long after I learned the stage select code that takes you directly to the last boss (the second pass through real one)and within 6 months I had played through final fantasy 2, super Castlevania 4,and Zelda 3.Back in the day I was a real serious gamer before the internet when games were a challenge and played/beaten solo.
My version Number 10: Ecco The Dolphin (Sega Genesis) Harsh Game. Number 9: Ikaruga (Gamecube) LPA beat it without deaths Number 8: Silver Surfer (NES) 1 hour less beaten Number 7: Contra: Hard Corps (Genesis) NintendoComplete did it with no deaths Number 6: Rayman (PS1) Colorful and difficult, with hidden cages! Number 5: Super Star Wars (SNES) Hard game, but fun Number 4: Myst (PC) No context Number 3: Super Ghouls and Ghosts (Fun and difficult) Number 2: The Lion King (SNES) (Insanely difficult) Honorable Mentions Super R-Type (SNES) Hard fun Crash Bandicoot (PS1) Get ready to fall, a lot. Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey (PS1) This game… Number 1: The Adventures of Lomax (PS1) Colorful graphics, cute characters, hard game…
I have Battletoads, but not an NES to play it with. My fave in the list is Myst! When I was in school, I took Auto CAD, and instead of doing our work, a group of us sat at the teacher's desk and played/watched Myst lol! We also played a game called Connections, which is just as cool. I've got both games. Too bad all of my laptops/PCs are too new to play them on! Even though I have the updated QuickTime player, the games require the older versions to play. Amber: Journeys Beyond is another game I miss playing.
In an interview with the creator of the original Ecco games he stated the reason why Ecco 1 was so tough was because he didn't want Ecco 1 to be one of those one and done games basically he didn't want Ecco 1 to be a game that could be beaten in one go, and forgot about.
I have a mini Megadrive and I'm constantly amazed at how brutally hard most of the games are. Games like Space Harrier and Thunderforce give you no room for error whatsoever.
Great job mojo as always. The games I've played as a pre teen that were difficult. Contra. Hard corps Battletoads Mario bros the lost levels Mike Tyson punchout( the 1st time I played it, but I beat it the 2nd time)
I remember I play Lion King on Nes when I was a kid. The giraffe is a difficult part. Only Nes where there only three lives if you lose you have start over again.
Final fight on Sega CD was ridiculously hard. I had to fight cheap as hell to beat that game and it took months. Also fully completing Mario64 and 007 golden eye was hard as living hell. Even harder than ecco the dolphin.
Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back... played that on the super NES back in the day and looking back at it... how in the world i was able to beat that game back in the day is beyond me D:
So Glad Super Ghouls 'N Ghost made top 3 I still love this Game to this Day. Its one of Capcom's Greatest Games cause I love the Animations, the Story, Also the Games difficulty. I beaten this game so many time best game ever!
