[General Discussion] Hardest game(s) you've ever played

Did anyone ever play RC Stunt Copter on the PlayStation? That was simultaneously one of the hardest and most boring games ever developed. Needless to say, my mate who bought it didn't keep it very long.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Actually you're all wrong. The hardest game ever made was the original Jet Set Willy on the Spectrum. Limited lives, one hit deaths, pixel perfect jumps required and loads of glitches that made it physically impossible to actually finish half the time. I've never met anyone who beat it and if any of you say you have, I want to see a video.

Pretty much every screen in JSW was a death trap but for me the hardest of all was the Banyan Tree:

YouTube Video

Bearing in mind that at the time, you had to play this using the crappy rubber keys on a Spectrum keyboard and the whole game was just insanely hard. You kids with your new fangled 8 bit games have no idea what properly difficult games were all about...

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by LeHah

Oh. So you mean Contra.

Only several years earlier, with more glitches and with a worse input device. Maybe you should read what other people write before making stupid comments that serve only to highlight your own ignorance? Like I already said, you kids with your new-fangled 8 bit games know nothing about real difficulty in gaming.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

That kind of logic I simply cannot argue with.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by greatPumpkin

oh weird, my post diappeared... o.O anyhoo.

SNES:
actraiser 2

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i try not to confuse with games that are not hard but just didn't finish the
the last stage.

Your post disappeared because it was just a list of games with no explanation or discussion and we don't like list posts here. If you could tell us exactly why you found those particular games so hard we could then all chat about it and live up to the "Interactive" part of our forums' name.

I was speaking idiomatically.