Zelda II
Rampage

a PC game called the 7th Guest


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12/16/2007 12:14:23 AM

Ninja Gaiden II
TMNT
Mega Man 3


[Edited on December 16, 2007 at 12:19 AM. Reason : foo]

12/16/2007 12:18:16 AM

oh shit,the 7th Guest... that was a big ass breakthrough graphics wise

12/16/2007 1:15:20 AM

King's Quest VIII--Mask of Eternity. It was cool, but the game kept crashing.

12/16/2007 7:55:58 AM

^^ 7th Guest was ftw when it came out. I remember how real everything looked


Gauntlet
RC Pro-am
Spy Hunter - but I don't know if there even was an end to that one

12/16/2007 9:35:47 AM

The Simpsons- Bart VS. the Space Mutants

12/16/2007 3:01:10 PM

i never beat super mario 2, but that game sucked anyhow.

12/16/2007 11:16:35 PM

Zelda

Myst

Zelda 2 SUCKED

12/16/2007 11:43:21 PM

Mario Bros 2

Man, I hated that game, but it's the only Mario Bros that I didn't beat as a kid.

12/16/2007 11:45:07 PM

That was the easiest one for me to beat. But I never beat the first Super Mario Bros.

12/17/2007 12:14:42 AM

8eyes.

i never could figure out the premise.

12/17/2007 1:10:39 AM

tmnt

12/17/2007 2:00:05 AM

chrono cross

wind waker

12/17/2007 7:32:37 AM

Man i finished every game that was worth a crap.

i go ocd like that though.

12/17/2007 7:38:53 AM

im still working on:

castlevania
kid icarus
punchout

12/17/2007 10:14:12 AM

Quote :

"kid icarus"

damn that takes me back

12/17/2007 11:10:32 AM

I beat Zelda II once I got my Gamecube

The Thunderbird doesn't have shit for me, neither does Link's evil twin shadow

Neither does Medusa in Kid Icarus

12/17/2007 11:55:00 AM

Myst.

I never saw what the big deal was.

12/17/2007 3:16:42 PM

yeah i hated Myst. it drove me bonkers.

12/18/2007 3:18:55 PM

Battletoads for NES

12/18/2007 8:05:03 PM

FF X - School got too busy and I just never picked it back up again
FF XII - Work got too busy and I just never picked it back up again

12/18/2007 9:14:12 PM

Aw man San Andreas is a cold case too. maybe Ill dust that one off today

12/19/2007 9:27:29 AM

yeah san andreas has gone cold twice for me. i played each city thoroughly getting everything possible and completing every side mission. finished the the first city, dropped it for a year. started playing last fall and played daily for months and finished up the second city and moved to las venturas. I finished the bank robbing mission and haven't played it since probably march. I think the only reason i haven't played any games is b/c none of my systems are hooked up and i'm lazy to do so.

12/19/2007 11:32:20 AM

mario sunshine

12/19/2007 1:17:42 PM

I never finished the final series of Formula 1 races on Gran Turismo 4. Maybe one day I'll get around to figuring out how to tune the cars for each track and get around to finishing that game.

Then again, I haven't bothered to turn on my PS2 in quite some time.

12/19/2007 9:00:21 PM

just kidding.... anyone have a Sega Master System or a Turbografx 16?

12/19/2007 11:11:36 PM

dude

california games was the shit on the atari lynx i had as a kid

12/19/2007 11:14:11 PM

i pwnd Captain Skyhawk on NES.

12/20/2007 8:41:39 AM

Quote :

"I never beat the first Super Mario Bros."

Yeah, it's the only one I never beat. It always came down to luck by the time you get to the very end. You just run and hope, so I never bothered trying over and over until I got it.

Old, old school games didn't typically have endings. You just played them until you died or until you got bored. Beating your previous point score was pretty much all you had. Then the games started to have endings but some of them were insanely difficult. Now games are too easy, you always beat them. Beating a game is just something that everyone has come to expect.

12/20/2007 11:51:00 AM

(NES)
Contra
Super Contra
Guardian Legend
Mario 3
Legend of Zelda (the second game is no comparison)
Life Force
Mega Man 3
Mega Man 4
Battletoads
Defender
Tecmo Bowl
Bart Simpson vs The Space Mutants
Excite Bike
TMNT I and II


(SEGA, N64, or SNES)
Mortal Kombat I, II, III
Killer Instinct (man why can't they remake that game... there is nothing like beating your opponent with a 40 hit combo)
Killer Instinct 2
Super Street Fighter
Samurai Showdown
NBA JAM
X-men
Tekken
Virtual Fighter
Streets of Mothafuckin Rage (all of em)
Goldeneye
Shinobi I, II, III
Star Fox



[Edited on December 20, 2007 at 12:38 PM. Reason : .]

12/20/2007 12:36:46 PM

can you actually beat excitebike?

12/20/2007 1:20:59 PM

ah crap i didnt read the title correctly


i was just naming old school games

the only games I have never beaten out of that list are Excite Bike and Battletoads
and Star Fox

[Edited on December 20, 2007 at 1:37 PM. Reason : .]

12/20/2007 1:36:10 PM

I loved to try to play hackysack on California games when i was in kindergarten because my then college aged aunt had just picked up playing it in real life. Man was that a long time ago!


RC pro-am - I remember getting to level 22, how many damn levels were there? The computer cars just kept getting faster and faster.


The game genie ruined mario bro's 3. That was when I learned cheating on games wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

[Edited on December 20, 2007 at 7:14 PM. Reason : fuxn cheating]

12/20/2007 7:06:46 PM

Earthworm Jim

12/21/2007 2:16:32 AM

Some old, some not so old I suppose:
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy XII
Xenosaga (so I can start on the two sequels )
Metroid Prime
Star Ocean

[Edited on December 21, 2007 at 5:19 AM. Reason : .]

12/21/2007 5:18:42 AM

Final Fantasy X-2 even tho it sucked.
Final Fantasy XII

12/21/2007 7:45:42 AM

man, I could beat StarFox in one sitting. I absolutely love that game.

12/21/2007 8:32:46 AM

I never got passed the final boss (at least I don't think I did)

12/21/2007 1:25:05 PM

^^^ FFXII. The damn monster hunts finally did me in.

12/21/2007 3:27:44 PM

man I loved Earthworm Jim

also Toe Jam and Earl was a great one I never finished

12/21/2007 3:28:47 PM

Quote :

"Now games are too easy, you always beat them. Beating a game is just something that everyone has come to expect."

I totally agree

there's really no sense of accomplishment anymore

especially since games are designed with trilogies in mind now

12/21/2007 4:12:36 PM

They have just gone to a different difficulty setting scheme. Giving a player 4 difficulty options is a marketing scheme of brilliance. If the average newb can beat most of teh games, they will buy more and more because of it where as if you are playing on just one or two difficulty settings, you are more likely to get frustrated


you try to beat Guitar Hero III on Expert
or
Call of Duty 4 on veteran

12/21/2007 4:41:55 PM

Morrowind
FFVIII

12/21/2007 9:46:55 PM

TMNT. That was hard shit!

12/22/2007 2:37:33 PM

if you want to just play games from the original Nintendo, and don't know anything about roms... I found this site after the mention of R.C.Pro-Am.... http://www.nintendo8.com/

You will see a list of categories running across the page much in the same manner as this website. Don't waste too many hours reminiscing....

12/24/2007 2:29:35 PM

Landstalker - my friend swore by this game, but by the time I heard about it the 16-bit era was long over

12/27/2007 10:57:52 AM

how can you not beat california games?

btw thats one of the best games ever

12/27/2007 11:04:20 AM

Add Qubert to that list. did it HAVE an ending?



[Edited on January 3, 2008 at 6:36 PM. Reason : .]

1/3/2008 6:35:35 PM

halflife 2

1/7/2008 1:10:40 PM

Qbert FTW!!!

How the hell did people not beat Mario Bros 1, 2, or 3? With the warps, all of the games are easily beatable in less than an hour (30 min for Mario 2).

Proud to say I recently checked punch-out off the list.

I don't think RC Pro-am had an ending or did it?

Anyone else ever beat Karnov? That game was hard as shit!

Metroid, TMNT, Ghosts n' Goblins (NES, I beat the arcade game back when I was a kid) are at the top of my list

1/7/2008 1:41:33 PM