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Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:05PM (Unverified) said

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F-Zero GX

What an amazing, challenging, and rewarding game.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:11PM (Unverified) said

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Nintendogs

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:11PM (Unverified) said

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all the half-lifes

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:14PM (Unverified) said

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animal crossing

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:14PM xGearSecondx said

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I AM ONLY A MAN

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:19PM (Unverified) said

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Ghosts & Goblins. Brutal even by 8-bit standards.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:20PM Joeybeast said

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I have no idea what this is, but I want it for free.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:20PM (Unverified) said

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Kid Icarus. I could never, ever beat it without using any of the special passwords, but that never stopped me from trying for years and years. I suppose I ought to check out the Virtual Console version one of these days to see if the last 20+ years of gaming experience have made it any easier for me, or if it really is that difficult.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:20PM garu29 said

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MegaMan! I realized I'm really not that good at some video games!

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:23PM jwiest said

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Ultima IV

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:27PM (Unverified) said

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I love swag.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:28PM eugaet said

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Tetris. I still haven't been able to reach the last level...

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:29PM neowolf said

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Milon's Secret Castle really kicked my ass when I was younger!

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:30PM rodiard said

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Super Ghouls & Ghosts. Beat the last boss, only to find out that in order to properly beat the game you need to do it over. With a bracelet!

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:31PM sorensilk said

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Bionic Commando. I have still never beaten that game.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:32PM Vanuslux said

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Hmmm...tough one...I think I'll go with the first Mega Man, the only one of the series I played. It was fun, but frustrating enough that I didn't want to play the future installments.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:33PM (Unverified) said

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THE GAME OF LIFE (LOL)

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:33PM Santos L Halper said

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Ikaruga or Sin & Punishment

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:33PM (Unverified) said

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Battletoads. Love the game... but that freakin' hovercraft stage! Arrrghh!

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:33PM TheC0A7S said

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CONTRA 4!!!!

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:33PM dreganfyre said

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NES-era Ninja Gaiden. SO hard...

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:35PM miquonranger03 said

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Well, the boss battle at the end of MGS3(not the final one, the 10 minute timed one) was extremely frustrating for many reasons. I still love the series to death, though.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:52PM (Unverified) said

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Contra 4

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:36PM (Unverified) said

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Been gaming for 20+ years, and the toughest game I've ever learned that was actually a ton of fun was Skate It! on Wii using the balance board. It took a good three hours of gaming before the BB controls began to really click, but after that I felt like Rodney Mullen in his prime and could execute anything I wanted to flawlessly.

Some of those races were just brutally challenging. I can remember one race in particular that took about 7 straight hours of retries in order to complete, yet I still had a blast the whole time (despite barely being able to walk the next day).

What an incredible and rewarding game. I still like it better than both Skate and Skate 2, as well as every Tony Hawk console game ever released (and I've gotten 100% on them all, so i know). Skate It! is so underated, it's not even funny. I'm guessing that most gamers and reviewers probably blamed the game for their own shitty sense of balance on that one. A couple of small tweeks and that game would've been absolutely perfect.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:40PM (Unverified) said

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Final Fantasy X

i barely passed the Spectral Keeper and got all the way to Yunalesca without cheating but she kicked my butt so hard i still can't sit comfortably. i was satisfied with how far i got so i eventually gave up oh that see-you-next-tuesday

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:40PM (Unverified) said

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Milon's Secret Castle. Killing monsters with bubbles FTW! Oh and don't forget about the music note collecting mini-game levels!

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:42PM (Unverified) said

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The NES era Castlevania. I've never completed that game. I've had it on my VC since it was released ,and i progress a level every few months lol. Damn those Medusa Heads ,and stiff jumping controls lol.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:53PM (Unverified) said

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Mega Man 9

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:43PM MarkezJM said

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SMB

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:43PM Roto13 said

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Shinobi for PS2, I guess. That game was absurdly hard.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:46PM (Unverified) said

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Elite Beat Agents can get fairly ridiculous in the Hard Rock setting.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:47PM KaBob799 said

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Metroid games.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:47PM (Unverified) said

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Ninja Gaiden for nes, especially when you get to the 5-2 or whatever it is and dying once sends you back 3 levels.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:47PM (Unverified) said

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I haven't played it in nearly 20 years, but I have fond memories of finally completing "Bubble Ghost" on our Apple II GS. Finishing the game was satisfying. The ending, however, was horrible -- once you finally get through all 30 stages, the game simply ends with the text, "The bubble thanks you."

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:50PM (Unverified) said

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Back to the Future for the NES.

Posted: Apr 3rd 2009 8:55AM tomato said

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Ninja Gaiden NES. Soooo hard, but soooo good :)

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:52PM MisterSmith said

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Toughest game for me is probably Ikaruga.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:53PM Tye El Czar said

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I pick Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link. It was a great departure with great combat mechanics, with the most obnoxious Game Over screen mocking you every time you died. It kept making me want to get to the end just to imagine how Ganon looks after all of his stupid laughing...

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:54PM phoenixgeek said

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Battle Toads

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:54PM Ninbrendo said

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Tempest (arcade), once you get to the yellow levels. That's where the fun begins!

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:56PM ShampooPrincess said

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Ninja Gaiden on the NES. Those freaking eagles haunted my dreams!

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 3:57PM (Unverified) said

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Bionic Commando (NES). Hard...yes. Rewarding...yes. Fun...well, you shoot Hitler in the face with a bazooka, so....yes.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 4:05PM (Unverified) said

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Ikaruga. Magnificent and difficult.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 4:08PM (Unverified) said

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O... O... OUENDAAAN!!! (2)

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 4:09PM garbagedick said

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Sim earth

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 4:10PM mattprime86 said

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pong......

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 4:13PM (Unverified) said

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contra 4. i beat easy, but haven't even come close on normal.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 4:18PM (Unverified) said

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God Hand for the PS2...as if getting through the levels wasn't bad enough, the boss fights were absolutely brutal.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 5:53PM LilWiz said

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Right now I am trying to get three stars on all the MarioKart Wii courses. I have a great time at it but it is SOOOOOO frustrating to be at the end in 1st place and get bombarded with power ups and end up in 10th. I don't know if I will ever beat that goal but I am getting pretty good at racing by trying.

Posted: Mar 30th 2009 4:21PM (Unverified) said

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Fire Emblem.

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