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Posted: Aug 04 2010 01:48 pm

I've read that there's a trick where if you tap up or down on a ladder really quickly, you can skip animation frames and move faster. I'm not having much luck making it work on my console D-Pad.

Joined: Aug 04 2010 Location: Milwaukee, WI Posts: 52

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StonedAutopilot wrote:

Super Empire Strikes Back. Yeesh.

actually, empire was the only one that i legitimately beat. i never was able to beat a new hope or return of the jedi.

Interesting. I was only able to beat New Hope. That boss on the Hoth level...you don't beat him the first time with your powered up blaster, you're fucked.

Posted: Aug 05 2010 05:46 pm

TMNT for NES. Technodrome area everytime, but then those rolling aliens kill all my Turtles.
House of the Dead - Arcade

Posted: Aug 05 2010 09:18 pm

Me and my friends have a name for almost beating a game, and quitting just at the end. Final Stage Apathy.

With Final Fantasy I, IV, V and VI I got to the final castles, but never even got to the last boss. I've played them up to the final castles several times, but just never fought the damn last boss.

Also, Super Mario Bros 2... I got to Wart like twice, then lost, and never had the patience to try again...
Fuck you flying key-wielding shy guys...

Posted: Aug 05 2010 09:39 pm

lol thats what happened to me w/DWIII.

Posted: Aug 11 2010 02:08 am

Pac-man, Q-bert, Dig Dug, Robotron, all the arcade classics really. It seems like you can keep playing them and never really beat them. They just keep getting harder and harder. But seriously, Earthworm Jim 1 & 2. Those games were fun but fuckin hard as hell. Also I only enjoyed playing the first 2 levels of Battletoads in Battlemaniacs. After that the levels seemed just too hard to be fun anymore.

Posted: Aug 11 2010 10:33 pm

SuperC (I cheated with NESDS rewind function)
the Legend of Zelda
Mario 64
Birthday Blowout
Jetforce Gemini
DK 64

Posted: Aug 11 2010 11:25 pm

Morrowind and Oblivion, I never got through the main quests because I'm always too busy fucking around and stealing everything that's not nailed down.

Posted: Aug 11 2010 11:30 pm

U.N. Squadron
Shadowgate
Ninja Gaiden (I beat it using an emulator, but that doesn't count)

Posted: Aug 12 2010 12:35 am

Blackout wrote:

Morrowind and Oblivion, I never got through the main quests because I'm always too busy fucking around and stealing everything that's not nailed down.

yeah, I found out about the MODPCS/MODPCA cheats and never looked back... until now, and looking back I bet it would have been more fun if I hadn't ran at 200 miles per hour, jumped 80 ft in the air, and been able to kick a horse across a lake.

Title: Kenka Bancho Joined: May 05 2010 Posts: 227

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Also I only enjoyed playing the first 2 levels of Battletoads in Battlemaniacs. After that the levels seemed just too hard to be fun anymore.

I always feel like Battletoads was a completely missed opportunity. It seemed ideal for an off-the-wall beat em' up series, but instead most of it was devoted to a lot of lame vehicle levels or boring one-hit death stages.

Posted: Aug 12 2010 11:06 am

Now, Battletoads and Double Dragon is a hell of a game, but alas I have never beaten it. Nor have I ever beaten Tiny Toons Acme All-Stars, which I guess is as close as you can get to Mario Party on the Genesis - it's a great game, but you can't help but feel like being an adult in a ballroom (the playroom, not a dance hall) playing it.

I've also never beaten Sonic Spinball or Sonic and Knuckles.

Posted: Aug 13 2010 05:58 am

I hate to admit this, but Super Mario Brothers 1 and 3. I feel like less of a man now.

Posted: Aug 13 2010 06:50 am

Majora's Mask. Damn Water Temple!
Sonic 3. Damn Carnival level! I got stuck there every time.
Donkey Kong Country 2. Damn Krem Coins.
Donkey Kong 64. Damn Nintendo coin, and damn my cousins for deleting my save file with 198 golden bananas (Out of 201).

Posted: Aug 13 2010 10:46 am

sonic 3 as well. im sure i beat the carnival level, but i dont think i beat the game. i know i beat sonic & knuckles.

Posted: Aug 13 2010 01:29 pm

Good call on Sonic Spinball, that game is unique and a lot of fun, but gets pretty brutal in the later levels.

Posted: Aug 14 2010 01:26 am

Blaster Master 2. Never got past the second level.

Posted: Aug 14 2010 03:59 am

Spanish Meatloaf wrote:

Blackout wrote:

Morrowind and Oblivion, I never got through the main quests because I'm always too busy fucking around and stealing everything that's not nailed down.

yeah, I found out about the MODPCS/MODPCA cheats and never looked back... until now, and looking back I bet it would have been more fun if I hadn't ran at 200 miles per hour, jumped 80 ft in the air, and been able to kick a horse across a lake.

Ha ha yeah, if you use the combination of mod attribute + soul trap on target glitch with Morrowind too much you end up running faster than the Xbox can render the graphics.

How about Wrecking Crew? Anyone ever beat that game? Frustrates the hell out of me.

Posted: Aug 17 2010 07:45 am

too be honest i never finished earthworm jim 2 i had enough trouble with ville people, the flying king and the second round of puppy love.

Joined: Feb 16 2010 Posts: 130

Finally beat Metroid for the first time evar (blind run, aside from reading of Valdronius' blind run).
Then immediately beat it a second time.

Posted: Aug 18 2010 08:12 pm

I can take Ninja Gaiden of my list. I guess this could fall under acomplishments but regardless...

Joined: Jan 19 2009 Posts: 56

Sonic 2,Sonic 3,Sonic 2,Super Mario World, UMK3 and Sonic 2.

Joined: Jul 01 2010 Posts: 34

Kid Chameleon, never beat it in one sitting ever.

Posted: Aug 25 2010 04:08 pm

All the Streets of Rage Games, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Oblivion and FEAR 2

2010 SNES Champion Joined: Mar 01 2010 Posts: 31

I'll have to say Advance Wars 2. The game was great, and I'll still play a random match every once in a while, but I never completed the campaign.