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ReeperTheSeeker
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
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Care to make a list? I'm listening to music and can't be bothered to turn it off.
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Not Sure
Too Good At 2D Games
Title: Master of the Universe
Joined: Dec 03 2007
Posts: 1767
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10 Contra
9 Kung Fu
8 Castlevania III
7 Blaster Master
6 Batman
5 Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
4 Kid Icarus
3 Ninja Gaiden
2 Battletoads
1 Ghosts n' Goblins
No Gradius? That's a lot harder than Contra. I guess the rest of the list is ok. I still need to get around to beating Kid Icarus and Batman, but I beat the rest. (well... I didn't bother beating GnG twice to get the real ending)
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
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I always found Silver Surfer to be an enjoyable game once you got the enemy patterns down, and I agree about Gradius, though like Contra it's about trying to keep your power-ups.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
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Kung Fu is not hard, neither is Contra, neither is Punch-Out, and Kid Icarus isn't worth playing.
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
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For a first timer, Contra and Punch-Out will be difficult to beat.
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docinsano
Title: Boner King
Joined: Jan 08 2008
Location: Mpls Mini Soda
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I'm so sick of lists, and worse yet this is a video list, so I didn't even bother.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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I know from personal experience that Mission: Impossible is the hardest game, good or otherwise, on the NES.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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How exactly is Kung Fu worth playing? 
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Ghandi
Title: Alexz Aficionado
Joined: May 21 2008
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Interesting list. I haven't beaten them all, but I've sure played them a lot. I need to beat Kid Icarus and Ghost and Goblins....
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anorexorcist
Title: Polar Bear
Joined: May 21 2008
Location: The Cock and Plucket
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Sweet, I beat Kung Fu when I was younger, before school I remember. It took a number of trys but it didn't seem altogether too tough.
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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I don't know about "hardest worth playing," but those are certainly difficult games, mot are fun too. I'm not a huge Kung Fu fan, and I still have nightmares about Kid Icarus and falling off the clouds dressed as an eggplant, but a pretty list all the same, and entertaining at the very least.
I am happy Batman was on there. (Although..."best movie adaptation on the NES"?  )
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Nekkoru
Title: Polish Pickle Wench
Joined: Jan 25 2008
Location: Warsaw, Poland
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Looking at all other movie-based games on the NES, it's a correct statement.
I mean, Back To The Future? Alien 3? Beetlejuice? Friday the 13th? Nightmare on Elm Street?
Yeah. The only other good movie-based game I remember is Robocop, but it did have shitty controls.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Going by our friendly neighborhood top 100 list, that plum would go to Willow.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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#1 is not worth playing. At all.
Even if you think GnG is worth playing, Battletoads should still be #1 because it is more worth playing.
Blaster Master isn't hard, it just has that whole Metroidesque "Great, where the fuck am I supposed to go now?" thing going on.
And honestly, I always found CV1 harder than CV3.
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Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Joined: Sep 28 2008
Location: South of Heaven
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| UsaSatsui wrote: |
| Kung Fu is not hard, neither is Contra, neither is Punch-Out, and Kid Icarus isn't worth playing. |
I've got to disagree about Punch-Out. I'm confident in assuming that a first-timer has a 0% chance of beating it. Hell, beating Von Kaiser your first time is probably damn near impossible.
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Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
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What's the farthest anyone ever got in Battletoads? Without using the warp zones I think I could get to maybe the 5th stage. I can't remember the order of the stages, but I think the farthest I got WITH the warp zones was to the elevator shaft stage.
It always pissed me off how much the game had to offer, but I missed a lot of it because I couldn't reach it.
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
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| Ice2SeeYou wrote: |
| UsaSatsui wrote: |
| Kung Fu is not hard, neither is Contra, neither is Punch-Out, and Kid Icarus isn't worth playing. |
I've got to disagree about Punch-Out. I'm confident in assuming that a first-timer has a 0% chance of beating it. Hell, beating Von Kaiser your first time is probably damn near impossible. |
I agree. My big accomplishment in Punch-Out land is making it to Mike Tyson. After which I was promptly handed my ass, but still, I beat Super Macho Man. Yay me!
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| And honestly, I always found CV1 harder than CV3. |
Same, if anything just because it has the hardest version of Death (Or hardest CV boss ever really).
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Mr. Bomberman
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Title: (still) token black.
Joined: Jan 27 2006
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Actually, all three Batman games are pretty up there on the good "movie based NES games" scale.
And yeah, I'm sick of lists myself.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
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Eh, Batman Returns was better on the SNES. Batman and Batman 3 were pretty cool though.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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I have Batman: Return Of The Joker in my retro collection and it's good in my eyes. And what do you mean, Batman 3? You mean the NES Batman Returns?
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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No. The NES Batman progression was:
Batman
Batman Returns
Batman: Return of the Joker
RotJ was called Batman 3 in some regions, and I was feeling lazy. That it my favorite of the three games, by a longshot.
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
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I always thought Return of the Joker was the second game....guess I was wrong.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
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I'm amazed people had more of an issue with Punch-Out in my comment than with Kid Icarus.
Punch-Out is all just pattern learning and reflexes. There's not much to it beyond that.
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