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"ArWeGod" <ArWeGod?@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

> Anyone remember Ghosts and Goblins? That game made you play the
> entire thing over every time you died and I got to the end (or
> maybe to the penultimate level)! Exhausting!

Ghosts and Goblins was a bitch but Super Ghouls and Ghosts for Super
Nintendo was even worse. I think.  Or maybe I did not spend as much
time trying to beat Super Ghouls and Ghosts as I did the first one.
I know that after being obsessed with proving I could beat it, I
finally made it through Ghosts and Goblins but it was... hell.
Finally beating the devil and then learning you had to do it all over
again - in a harder mode, was the most frustrating gaming moment EVER.
=)

Another game that was insanely hard was Ninja Gaiden III.  The first
one was moderately hard by the time you made it to the last level, the
second one was a comparative breeze, but the third one was just
insanely tough.  Probably not as hard as Ghosts and Goblins but still
a tremendous pain.  

People recently went nuts over Ninja Gaiden for X-Box and how hard it
was.  Apparently they never played Ghosts and Goblins or Ninja Gaiden
III, both of which were 2x as hard.  

Perhaps the hardest game I have ever played is Transformers for the
Famicom.  It is also one of the worst games ever made.  I downloaded
an emulator and tried to play it but after trying many times, I never
made it through the first stage.  One hit killed you.  You blow up a
ship and this little man falls out and kills you.  You try to shoot
him and find he is too small to be hit.  The game looked terrible -
what I saw of it.  It might have been created by a drunk squirrel.  I
do not think I made it past the third or fourth enemy, although it
certainly was not engaging enough for me to make much of an attempt to
go through the game.  I would not be surprised if there was only one
stage and everyone on earth simply gave up before they realized this.