Greatest Video Game Accomplishment

[Bulldog]

After eight months, I've now returned to Los Santos, gotten Madd Dogg his record deal, got Sweet out of prison, taken back the hood, and I'm five missions from beating GTA:SA. This will be my best video game accomplishment of all time. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

What's yours?

[willie]

i don't know why i stalled on this game....

i hit the wall on what was a side mission i guess,

zero's little plane challenge where you gotta fly around and smoke five people....controlling that little piece of trash was so frustrating...

nevermind.

[gvibes]

My brother and I beat chrono trigger. We played straight through, in shifts. I think it took us about 30 hours.

[daryn]

yeah that was HARD.

for some reason i stopped playing the game 1 mission away from beating it. i'll go back soon

[kenberman]

I beat the computer in Tecmo Bowl (Nintendo) 105-0.

[einbert]

I once beat So Deep on heavy.

[swolfe]

the only thing i didn't do was rob the casino.

i clocked the casino chick with the purple dildo and haven't been able to get a date with her since. i was just trying to give it to her!

[Slow Play Ray]

I have always been particularly proud of beating Rygar on original Nintendo, because you couldn't save your progress. It's not easy to beat a game you have to play straight through.

I also beat GTA3 and Vice City in pretty short time, but I have lost interest about halfway through San Andreas. Maybe one of these days I'll get back to it.

[IggyWH]

My greatest accomplishment wasn't anything "great" but it made me quite happy. My friends used to play NFL2K (think it was 03) all the time. I'd sit around and watch, drink beer and talk [censored] but I'd never play. Call me crazy, but I've never liked playing sports games against real people. They find that play that jews you that you can't stop and just keep running it. There's no fun in that.

So about 3 months or so passes and all the [censored] talking has caught up to me. It's a full-blown attack Iggy and I couldn't dodge them anymore. I had to finally play a game or else I'd never hear the end of it.

So I call out my boy C-Lo... easily the one that has talked the most [censored] on me and probably the best out of all of them. I forget which team he picked but he played with a really good team. When I play against the computer, I like to run the ball so I took Miami to have Ricky Williams. They sucked but Ricky was a beast on the game and I didn't throw all that much.

C-Lo takes the kickoff first, has a couple nice plays and then scores a TD like a minute into the game (5 minute quarters). The full-blown attack on Iggy had now doubled.

I dusted my shoulder off and went on to win 78-7. I was then able to not play a game again and talk all the [censored] I wanted to.

[billyjex]

you know you don't have to beat Zero's missions to beat the game, right? it's only to get his store as an asset.

I never beat the plane one, frustrating as hell.

Fun game though. I guess my great video game accomplisment is beating all three PS2 GTA's?

[Dominic]

when I was 15, I once played a game of Asteroids for 10 straight hours! Don't remember my score, but it was more than 20 times the previous high scoer....

I was an Asteroids freak.

[gumpzilla]

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I once beat So Deep on heavy.

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I'm guessing this is DDR? That game is more fun than it has any right to be.

I beat Super Metroid in 59 minutes once, though my item rate was incredibly mediocre (neither real low nor real high)

[tbach24]

I won 250+ games of Madden 2001 straight (All-Madden and vs. friends). It was pretty nuts. One game that I won was really intense. I was playing my friend who was really good, and knew my strengths. I kept daring him to kick it to Charles Woodson for the kick returns, but he wouldnt. Well he was up 7 with 3 seconds left, and finally decided to kick it to CW. Well, as it was in the air, I guaranteed touchdown. I returned it all the way. Then, just as an added bonus I went for 2 and won.

[Crveballin]

I beat Contra for Original Nintendo without the code.

Same as the people before, I lost interest in GTA:SA half way through.

[SoSo]

Final Fantasy VII...completed the lot, maxed levels on all characters, all materia, all weapons defeated and every other part of the game...

[Slow Play Ray]

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I beat Contra for Original Nintendo without the code.

[/ QUOTE ]

up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select [for 2 player game], start

That code is permanently ingrained in my head, it will never go away!

[Thythe]

[ QUOTE ]
up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select [for 2 player game], start

That code is permanently ingrained in my head, it will never go away!

[/ QUOTE ]

Wasn't it up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, [select], start?

[manpower]

I hit every skeet on Duck Hunt out to level 50 or so. The skeets stop getting faster after level 20.

[gumpzilla]

Your version is correct.

I always thought LifeForce was substantially harder than Contra; beating Contra without the code didn't seem that hard to me. I used to be able to beat LifeForce without dying. I tried playing it on an emulator a while ago and was shocked at how bad I am at it now.

[BiffMan]

Have to go back to the Intellivision days...

There was a travelling Intellivision tour in 1980 (1981?) for a parent/child contest at malls in various cities. We only heard about it the day before in the paper, so figured we'd give it a shot. My Dad and I teamed and my Mom and Sister teamed and ran through the 3 games in the preliminary round and we all made it through. Mom & Sis dropped out in the semi-finals (but still came away with some luggage and a few other things) and my Dad & I made it through to the finals to play a game of bowling against the other final team and it was neck and neck and we just about lost if not for a lucky couple of strikes I got right near the end to eek out the victory.

So we got to represent Houston at the finals in LA with something like 26 or 27 other teams. For an 12 year old kid, it was pretty cool to get put up in a nice hotel for the couple of days of the tournament. Wound up 10th and got a slew of other games and a few other things, so was a pretty cool experience for that age.

Had similar fun with the Intellivision Astrosmash high score contest where they ran into integer overflow on the score (not quite as infinite scoring as they thought) and instead of the 50 people they were looking to get, they wound up with 100+ people all hitting the max score, so we were given a choice of a 50" projection TV (projection TVs were kinda new back then) in lieu of the all-expense paid trip to Houston for the finals. Given that we were living there, we decided that a nice TV would do just fine. So also kinda cool to win something like that as a kid and disprove the whole "never win anything with video games" line of thought... /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Victor]

mario kart 64 (http://www.mariokart64.com/top100.html)

i was top 50 for some of these courses back in the day. i never was nerdy enough to enter my info but i guess i was still proud since i tracked it.

my best course was banshee boardwalk but i also got pretty high with bowser castle, mario raceway, frappe snowland and sherbertland.

damn, i really wanna play now. its been at least 2 yrs.

[Sporky]

[ QUOTE ]
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up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select [for 2 player game], start

That code is permanently ingrained in my head, it will never go away!

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Wasn't it up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, [select], start?

[/ QUOTE ]

correct.

[istewart]

I went 5,001-2 in a pub.

[Slow Play Ray]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select [for 2 player game], start

That code is permanently ingrained in my head, it will never go away!

[/ QUOTE ]

Wasn't it up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, [select], start?

[/ QUOTE ]

LMAO! You are absolutely correct - so much for the ingrainment theory. /images/graemlins/confused.gif

DUH.

[kurosh]

I beat ghosts and goblins for the NES then super ghosts and goblins for the SNES and again on hard mode.

[SippinSoma]

When I was 8 or so, Blockbuster held a video game competition. Donkey Kong Country, SNES. Collect as many points as possible in 5 minutes. I obliterated all the scores in the < 15 category, and would have placed 2nd in > 15. I won 2 free rentals / month for a year.

EDIT: Also, my friend and I beat the original Halo in roughly 10 hours starting at midnight. One piss break. No rest. Plenty of Coca Cola.

[astroglide]

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I beat ghosts and goblins for the NES then super ghosts and goblins for the SNES and again on hard mode

[/ QUOTE ]

that's more the ticket, a lot of these responses are a joke. i can beat contra without dying at all for example. i could also beat the game with the allotted lives playing coop with my girlfriend. that's a tough one because your partner can screw you by not being able to scroll the screen on the horizontal levels and you can't clear a jump.

some examples of tough nes games are tmnt (original), simpsons, fester's quest, battletoads, and gauntlet. yes, gauntlet. try actually BEATING it sometime. you have to take perfect paths, get every clue, enter the clue, and then beat a 3-headed dragon. the nes version is a massively difficult game that everybody overlooks.

[jojobinks]

[ QUOTE ]
Call me crazy, but I've never liked playing sports games against real people. They find that play that jews you that you can't stop and just keep running it. There's no fun in that.

[/ QUOTE ]

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[Jeff W]

I beat battletoads and tmnt for NES in my youth. They don't make games that hard anymore.

[Jeff W]

Also, IIRC, X-men for NES is very difficult.

[Eurotrash]

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some examples of tough nes games are tmnt (original), simpsons, fester's quest, battletoads, and gauntlet.

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these were among the toughest NES games, I agree. I also found Legacy of the Wizard particularly tough and tricky when I was a kid

[MarkSummers]

dr mario. virus level 20 on speed high. sometimes i can even beat a few levels after that.

[gumpzilla]

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some examples of tough nes games are tmnt (original), simpsons, fester's quest, battletoads, and gauntlet.

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these were among the toughest NES games, I agree. I also found Legacy of the Wizard particularly tough and tricky when I was a kid

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah, that game was vicious. Ghosts N Goblins and the original TMNT were also ferociously hard. Fester's Quest, on the other hand, I never found particularly challenging.

[PhatTBoll]

double victory on the hardest level of Marble Madness. It takes teamwork and a lot of practice. Seriously.

[tpir90036]

[ QUOTE ]
I beat ghosts and goblins for the NES then super ghosts and goblins for the SNES and again on hard mode.

[/ QUOTE ]
This is much more impressive to me then some of the other things listed. Those games were hard. Especailly if you didn't cheat since you basically had to play through them twice to get the weapon to beat Lucifer.

[jack spade23]

I borrowed someone's GTA 3 and now it just goes to the loading screen (all the characters with the red sqare that says 'loading') and freezes. I thought since there was a ton of video gamers here they could answer how to fix this, seeing as i need to give it back in good shape.

[tpir90036]

I would also like to add Adventure's of Bayou Billy to astro's list since a lot of Konami games have been mentioned already. I think that game might have been impossible. I have never beat or met anyone that has beat that game.

[CallMeIshmael]

[ QUOTE ]
I borrowed someone's GTA 3 and now it just goes to the loading screen (all the characters with the red sqare that says 'loading') and freezes. I thought since there was a ton of video gamers here they could answer how to fix this, seeing as i need to give it back in good shape.

[/ QUOTE ]

Do you think you scratched the disc??

If so... you can purchase disc repair kits at a local electronics shop. (like a best buy)

[jack spade23]

I think i kept it in pretty good shape, but, ill try. Is there a cheaper way of doing this, like you can do with CDs? Use toilet paper and toothpaste or something? That might be a myth, i dont know

[Stupendous_Man]

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I also beat GTA3 and Vice City in pretty short time, but I have lost interest about halfway through San Andreas. Maybe one of these days I'll get back to it.

[/ QUOTE ]


I've not beaten either GTA3 or Vice City for the same reason you haven't finished SA, lost interest (so happens that I discovered poker shortly thereafter - yes, I was late to the GTA3).

[holeplug]

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I beat Contra for Original Nintendo without the code.

[/ QUOTE ]

up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select [for 2 player game], start

That code is permanently ingrained in my head, it will never go away!

[/ QUOTE ]

I'll never forget the # code to go straight to Mike Tyson in Punchout for the orginal Nintendo.

[holeplug]

I always remember the last level of Ninja Gaiden for the Nintendo being really hard. Only beat that game once or twice.

[thatpfunk]

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I would also like to add Adventure's of Bayou Billy to astro's list since a lot of Konami games have been mentioned already. I think that game might have been impossible. I have never beat or met anyone that has beat that game.

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I would love to meet someone that could play that game semi-competently. I was little when I had it, but I don't remember ever beating a level.

[tpir90036]

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I would also like to add Adventure's of Bayou Billy to astro's list since a lot of Konami games have been mentioned already. I think that game might have been impossible. I have never beat or met anyone that has beat that game.

[/ QUOTE ]
I would love to meet someone that could play that game semi-competently. I was little when I had it, but I don't remember ever beating a level.

[/ QUOTE ]
Even the level 1 karate guys had a *ton* of health. They almost had as much as you did but there were many more of them than there were of you obviously.

I made it to the outside of the mansion where the end boss lives once but don't think I lasted for more than 2 seconds.

[Pocket Trips]

tHE GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR ALL YOU VIDEO GEEKS IS GETTING LAID /images/graemlins/grin.gif...

Just kidding.... I pwned pac-man and donkey kong back in the day

[Stupendous_Man]

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I beat Contra for Original Nintendo without the code.

[/ QUOTE ]

up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select [for 2 player game], start

That code is permanently ingrained in my head, it will never go away!

[/ QUOTE ]

I'll never forget the # code to go straight to Mike Tyson in Punchout for the orginal Nintendo.

[/ QUOTE ]


Seen all the posts about codes, I think back at how I USED to know so many and now probably couldn't recall any. Might remember a few codes, but probably couldn't put it with the correct game.

Kind of surprised no one in OOT has started a Code thread in the spirit of Jeopardy. Post the answer - the code - and see who comes up with the question - the game. Obviously, the goal would be to do this without googling for the correct answer.

[MrX]

Arcade Contra. Beat game without dying once. Got the spread gun early and played it to the end on a single man.

[daryn]

007 (bond) 373 (just alternating 3's and 7's continuing from the 7 in 007) 5963 (just remember that one) /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[AncientPC]

[ QUOTE ]
Final Fantasy VII...completed the lot, maxed levels on all characters, all materia, all weapons defeated and every other part of the game...

[/ QUOTE ]

I made it to the final pit with sub-lvl 20 characters under 15 hours.

I then spent the next 60 hours leveling up there, producing at least 3 all red / green / yellow materias.

[i wanna be me]

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I then spent the next 60 hours leveling up there, producing at least 3 all red / green / yellow materias.

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[Jman28]

There was a Blockbuster competition a while back. Every store would have people compete and the winners would meet in a regional match. The system of choice was Sega Genesis at the time.

I won for my local store at age 10, which was crazy because it was 17 and under.

At regionals some 17 year old kicked my ass in NBA Jam in the first round. Oh well. Got a free game out of it.

[BusterStacks]

I beat Ninja Gaiden II, and Adventure Island. Also Splinter Cell straight through with no help. um.... Bubble Bobble.

In this thread I was most impressed with the guy who beat Rygar and the guy who beat TMNT. Both of these games were way too hard when I was young. Anyone ever beat Double Dragon for NES? Also too hard for me.

[bugstud]

double dragon was pretty easy actually.

I don't know what my video game accomplishment would be, but I probably played enturely too much Tony Hawk 2.

[touchfaith]

1981...Got to the pizza parlore we hung out at, at about 9:00am...Put a quarter in Astroids...Played till about 3:00pm (switching occasionally with a buddy for breaks)...at which time I still had ships lined up all the way across the screen...

Sold it for $5.

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Oh, but my greatest has to be the time I gave a guy a glass of toilet water to spit down the pinball machine (free games that way on old ones, "minimal" risk to life)

[Momo]

I was one of the first people to "discover" the handcuff trick of Guiles in SF2. Did it by messing around and not even knowing what i was doing. Proceded to use it until the patch came out.

[ttleistdci]

I'm still undefeated against human opponents in Madden 2005. If 2006 comes out before someone beats me, I might just bronze my copy of Madden and throw it on a plaque.

[7ontheline]

Rygar was TOUGH. Never did beat it, only got to the end castle a couple of times. No save option made it damn near impossible.

[Phoenix1010]

There's actually a guide to FFVII perfect games here. (http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/psx/file/final_fantasy_vii_perfect.txt)

The best I've pulled is a level 5 perfect game. Maxing out the items, gil, and experience would take a sickening amount of time.

[thatpfunk]

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I'm still undefeated against human opponents in Madden 2005. If 2006 comes out before someone beats me, I might just bronze my copy of Madden and throw it on a plaque./quote]

How many games have you played on either the PS2 or xbox live server? If you are playing against the upper level competition and are undefeated after a couple hundred games, that is staggering.

[Amid Cent]

There was this arcade video game out called Klax about 15 years ago (you had to make rows of colored tiles). There are 100 levels and I'm the only person I know of who finished the game.

[tbach24]

I was playing 2001 vs. my friends (not bad, but none could beat me) and vs. All-Madden mode. In 2005, when I play against my friends (the one's in my new town are very good), I basically take one quarter figuring out their game plan, and then totally destroy them. I've never played XBox or PS2 live or whatever. I currently have a gamecube. I'm pretty sure I could handle myself very well against any competition though because my game plan is so perfect.

[thatpfunk]

[ QUOTE ]

I was playing 2001 vs. my friends (not bad, but none could beat me) and vs. All-Madden mode. In 2005, when I play against my friends (the one's in my new town are very good), I basically take one quarter figuring out their game plan, and then totally destroy them. I've never played XBox or PS2 live or whatever. I currently have a gamecube. I'm pretty sure I could handle myself very well against any competition though because my game plan is so perfect.

[/ QUOTE ]

This is kinda like ping-pong, everyone thinks they're pretty good until they play people who are really good, and then the dismantling begins.

I think I am a good Madden player and am competitive against almost any player, but the upper echelon players destroy me (not so much in a blowout sense, but they have the game in control 100% of the time). There are some very, very good players.

[James282]

[ QUOTE ]
I beat Ninja Gaiden II, and Adventure Island. Also Splinter Cell straight through with no help. um.... Bubble Bobble.

In this thread I was most impressed with the guy who beat Rygar and the guy who beat TMNT. Both of these games were way too hard when I was young. Anyone ever beat Double Dragon for NES? Also too hard for me.

[/ QUOTE ]

I beat double dragon and double dragon II.

I also beat Toe Jam and Earl for Sega Genesis by myself as Toe Jam without going to level 0 for the extra life on random levels and on the fixed levels, that was pretty difficult. I also scored 100 goals against the computer in NHL '94 for Sega Genesis, but my real abilities there were in playing against humans with manual goalie control.
-James

[astroglide]

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double dragon was pretty easy actually

[/ QUOTE ]

double dragon was easy. double dragon NES was not easy. it did have the chainlink fence/baseball bat combo to level up though, but even with that the end boss could be a bitch.

i beat rygar and don't recall it being that challenging.

[astroglide]

[ QUOTE ]
I was one of the first people to "discover" the handcuff trick of Guiles in SF2. Did it by messing around and not even knowing what i was doing. Proceded to use it until the patch came out.

[/ QUOTE ]

you 'used' it to lock up games? it's worthless outside of the ability to set up shadow throws, and if you were one that couldn't pull it off in time you'd end up with mutually assured destruction. afaik there also wasn't a 'patch', there were revisions of sf2:ww but they all had handcuffs. it got fixed in sf2:ce.

[Dantes]

I got 4th in a 80 man national tekken 3 tournament, that was pretty cool.

[davelin]

I agree with whoever mentioned Ninja Gaiden on the NES. A few thrown controllers with that game.

[SackUp]

Goldeneye - Beat all single player and got all cheats.

Facility - 1:25 with no cheats or gameshark.

[tpir90036]

[ QUOTE ]
007 (bond) 373 (just alternating 3's and 7's continuing from the 7 in 007) 5963 (just remember that one) /images/graemlins/grin.gif

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My roommate's band from college put this code on the back of these shirts they had made. I still have people come up to me when I wear it and tell me Mike Tyson stories.

The code was really easy for me to remember because my address was 373 so i only needed to remember the last 4....not that anyone cares. Just being nostalgic.

[davelin]

[ QUOTE ]
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007 (bond) 373 (just alternating 3's and 7's continuing from the 7 in 007) 5963 (just remember that one) /images/graemlins/grin.gif

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My roommate's band from college put this code on the back of these shirts they had made. I still have people come up to me when I wear it and tell me Mike Tyson stories.

The code was really easy for me to remember because my address was 373 so i only needed to remember the last 4....not that anyone cares. Just being nostalgic.

[/ QUOTE ]

I never understood why this code gave you a 0-2 record before fighting Tyson though...

[manpower]

You know I always thought super macho man was tougher than tyson.

[Sponger15SB]

[ QUOTE ]
There was a Blockbuster competition a while back. Every store would have people compete and the winners would meet in a regional match. The system of choice was Sega Genesis at the time.

I won for my local store at age 10, which was crazy because it was 17 and under.

At regionals some 17 year old kicked my ass in NBA Jam in the first round. Oh well. Got a free game out of it.

[/ QUOTE ]

I won my store playing super nintendo, and then I made it to the quarterfinals of the NBA jam tourney in San Diego.

you = NOTHING...bahahahaha

Besides that, I can't really think of anything else, although this morning between classes at school I got 5 free games of the Demolition Man pinball game in a row, cause I [censored] rule at that game.

[fsuplayer]

shot 46 on st. andrews in TW 2003.

[Hermlord]

I have a few I'm pretty proud of, all old-school (no cheats for any of these):

Beat original Super Mario w/o warps
Beat Legend of Zelda, both quests w/o guides
Beat Kid Icarus (totally underappreciated game)
Final Fantasy III -- by the end, everyone had Ultima, 1MP/spell and 4x spells per turn
etc.

But by far my greatest accomplishment:

Beating every board of Super Mario World, including Star AND Special worlds, without activating ANY of the switch palaces.

Yes it can be done. But man was it tough.

[astroglide]

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I agree with whoever mentioned Ninja Gaiden on the NES. A few thrown controllers with that game.

[/ QUOTE ]

the only difficult thing about that game is the top of the last level (bridge jumping and the boss). getting there with the flame pyramid special was hugely important. there are lots of tricks to the game, like you could beat bloody malth by simply rushing him then crouching and jamming with the sword while you took hits.

the most important thing was the wall climbing jump though, when you grip a wall you pull away and jump, then immediately pull back toward the wall. the result is he would jump up and land slightly higher on the wall than where he was. in later versions they simply let him climb walls but that's how you had to do it in the first game. it also helped sometimes because if you did it on a top-mounting wall you would 'fall through it' once you went over the top of the screen.

[astroglide]

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I never understood why this code gave you a 0-2 record before fighting Tyson though...

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if you didn't have a losing record it would back you up to macho man after losing a fight. the cheat code would take you straight to tyson, and if you lost you were instantly retired. presumably they figure a cheat code user isn't going to want to play a lower level character when they warped directly to the top.

[SomethingClever]

I beat Mike Tyson without using Game Genie or other such tomfoolery.

[SomethingClever]

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Anyone ever beat Double Dragon for NES?

[/ QUOTE ]

I beat the arcade version.... took a few quarters, that did.

Can't remember if I beat the NES version or not.... but I think I did. Jumping the pits and avoiding those spears on the last level is the hard part.

[SackUp]

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Anyone ever beat Double Dragon for NES?

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I beat DD several times back in the day. But what I saw a kid do in class the other day was even mroe impressive.

This kid has beat Double Dragon and Contra each in one class sitting. Using an emulator of course. Beating each of those games in under 1 hour and 15 minutes is damn impressive. And using the keypad which i think is much harder than having a controller (though probably not that significant).

BTW this is in lawschool and the kid tried taking notes at the same time. He'll definitely be helping out the curve in that class /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[ZeeJustin]

I beat Street Fighter 2 Turbo on 8 stars w/ a few different characters.

FFVII, same thing as someone mentioned above, every item, every secret, level 99, etc.

I was never a hardcore Goldeneye player, but I did get the cheat that you get when you beat Facility on the 3rd mode in under 2 minutes and 12 seconds or something.

I have beaten Ninja Gaiden 1, but that was so long ago that I barely remember it.

I was decent at Mario Kart 64. I got all 3 ghosts pretty easily, but I think my best accomplishment was a 17 second lap on Wario Stadium (it might have been 19, unsure).

I generally just played games until I beat them, so I can't think of any accomplishments that really stand out too much. I guess my best "accomplishment" is my ratio of games beaten to games played.

Edit: I don't remember my exact score, but I broke 20 million on that standard Pinball game that usually comes with windows XP.

[Terrabon98]

I can beat Super Mario Bros 1 in under five minutes...it's true, i'm the man

[bort411]

Contra. 0 deaths the first time through and half of the second time. 12 consecutive death free levels.

Honorable mention to Mario 2, for beating the game exlusively using the Princess without dying.

[astroglide]

[ QUOTE ]
Honorable mention to Mario 2, for beating the game exlusively using the Princess without dying.

[/ QUOTE ]

i'm not sure where that one would rate on difficulty. toad helps in a lot of areas, but mario is pretty flat and luigi's only good for getting to the second warp zone.

[Phoenix1010]

Kind of like ZJ's, I don't really have a big accomplishment other than sheer volume of games played. I've probably played more console RPG's than anyone here, or I'd at least stack my list up close to anyone's here. Without thinking too much about it, I'd estimate the total to be between 75 and 100. When you consider the fact that I've played many of them multiple times through (I've beaten FFVII 7 times), you come up with a short lifetime of time that I could have spent doing something more productive like... almost anything.

So yeah, on a video game achievement scale, mine gets about a 4. On a life achievement scale, it's approaching negative infinity.

[ttleistdci]

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I can beat Super Mario Bros 1 in under five minutes...it's true, i'm the man

[/ QUOTE ]

Is that possible?
A friend of mine said he knew someone who beat it in 90 seconds...obviously he's lying because that's just not possible.

[willie]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
I can beat Super Mario Bros 1 in under five minutes...it's true, i'm the man

[/ QUOTE ]

Is that possible?
A friend of mine said he knew someone who beat it in 90 seconds...obviously he's lying because that's just not possible.

[/ QUOTE ]

lmfao

just nod your head and say, "yip! who hasn't done that"

[Eurotrash]

[ QUOTE ]
I've probably played more console RPG's than anyone here, or I'd at least stack my list up close to anyone's here.

[/ QUOTE ]


i've done quite a few in my day.

[Catch of the Day]

This...

http://img9.echo.cx/img9/2506/untitled5zj.jpg

Catch-

[gumpzilla]

[ QUOTE ]

Beat original Super Mario w/o warps

[/ QUOTE ]

There were a couple of particularly hard levels, as I recall.

[ QUOTE ]

Beat Legend of Zelda, both quests w/o guides
Final Fantasy III -- by the end, everyone had Ultima, 1MP/spell and 4x spells per turn

[/ QUOTE ]

Both of these, but particularly FF3, just take lots of patience and aren't particularly hard, in my opinion.

[ QUOTE ]

Beat Kid Icarus (totally underappreciated game)


[/ QUOTE ]

I liked that game a lot too, haven't played it in 10-15 years.

[ QUOTE ]

Beating every board of Super Mario World, including Star AND Special worlds, without activating ANY of the switch palaces.

[/ QUOTE ]

Now this is pretty impressive. I'm not particularly clear on how you do at least one of the Star worlds with this restriction.

[manpower]

[ QUOTE ]
I can beat Super Mario Bros 1 in under five minutes...it's true, i'm the man

[/ QUOTE ]
I, sir, am hereby calling you out. Not because I'm better at you at the game, but because you are clearly lying. Even using tool assisted techniques, the 5 minute mark can only be beaten by a fraction (http://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/queue.cgi?id=471) of a second [4:59.60].

[Phoenix1010]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
I can beat Super Mario Bros 1 in under five minutes...it's true, i'm the man

[/ QUOTE ]
I, sir, am hereby calling you out. Not because I'm better at you at the game, but because you are clearly lying. Even using tool assisted techniques, the 5 minute mark can only be beaten by a fraction (http://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/queue.cgi?id=471) of a second [4:59.60].

[/ QUOTE ]

How do you know he's not the dude in the video? He is not clearly lying, because it is clearly possible. However, he is extremely likely to be lying.

[manpower]

Well I don't know he's not the dude in the video, but I do know he's lying because the guy in the video made it using an emulator, slow motion, saved-states, etc. Look in the upper left hand corner of the link: "Tool-assisted superplay movies".

[willie]

furthermore, if he was the guy in the video

he'd be so PROUD of his unbeatable time that he would never round up to 5 minutes.

you know damn well he'd have that decimal in there.

[toss]

I once beat Max Unlimited.

[TheMainEvent]

[ QUOTE ]

I beat Contra for Original Nintendo without the code.

[/ QUOTE ]

It's a lot easier than people think. Every enemy is completely predictable. I can beat it without losing a life about half the time.

[Phoenix1010]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
I've probably played more console RPG's than anyone here, or I'd at least stack my list up close to anyone's here.

[/ QUOTE ]


i've done quite a few in my day.

[/ QUOTE ]

I just counted and listed 76 that I've beaten. I've missed some big ones along the way but made up for it with some pretty obscure ones. If you've got more than 76 you win, but I think I'm unchallenged as king loser around these parts.

[Mangatang]

I beat Castlevania on the original Nintendo when I was a kid.

I don't know if this is a great accomplishment or not, but it was my favorite video game moment. I even recorded the final battle on VHS as proof to my friends who tried forever to beat it (unsuccessfully).

[J_V]

Anyone beat those. I found them downright impossible.

[J_V]

Some guy beat Ninja Gaiden with his eyes closed. No joke. That's pretty sweet.

[J_V]

Any KidIcarus players out there? That was a beast of a game.

[ghostface]

Full sphere grid for all chars in FFX...

And all the other [censored] of course too.

[billyjex]

I pitched a no hitter in Ken Griffey Baseball for SNES once.

Super hard to do.

[7ontheline]

Kid Icarus was MUCH easier IF you knew the sequence in those treasure rooms. If you could get something each time, it made the game not too bad actually. If you just used random chance, then yes, it was tough.

[astroglide]

[ QUOTE ]
I beat Castlevania on the original Nintendo when I was a kid.

I don't know if this is a great accomplishment or not, but it was my favorite video game moment. I even recorded the final battle on VHS as proof to my friends who tried forever to beat it (unsuccessfully).

[/ QUOTE ]

the grim reaper is usually 80x harder than dracula, and the game also has a tendency to lock up on that level (verified across multiple systems/carts). probably my funniest/most painful nes moment, i beat dracula and raised my arms in triumph and went to the phone to call a friend and tell him i beat it (he couldn't get past the reaper). i returned to the screen just in time to see the 2nd incarnation of dracula killing me.

[touchfaith]

Hmmm, this is probably a pretty good thread to ask...

WTF ever happened to all the MAME ROMS you used to be able to download? Is there something similar still out there?

[Zoelef]

Marvel Super Heroes (PSX)
24-0, Single Player Mode, Difficulty 8, all best-of-5 matches:
Captain America, 4-5 Perfect rounds
* Nothing fancy, just aggression and Power Gem hilarity
Shuma-Gorath, 8-9 Perfect Rounds
* Roundhouse Throw into corner, dash, activate Chaos Dimension, (normal jump) Grab/Activate, J.Strong (falling), S.Forward (juggle), Air Combo for a lot. I pulled that off a couple times, and it helped.

I also managed to get all 6 Infinity Gems from Thanos once (Magneto?), and slugged him out without activating any of them. That was probably Difficulty 4, but it's still tough on its own.
---
Tecmo Super Bowl

No-Offense Seasons, NYGiants:
1st: 11-5 - Lawrence Taylor has 100+ sacks, I lose in 1st round of playoffs to Redskins
2nd: 13-5 - Lawrence Taylor has ~120 sacks, I lose in 2nd round of playoffs to 49ers (stupid unstoppable Jerry Rice)
---
Chrono Trigger

Level 99 with all characters, done by endlessly repeating a specific battle in Zeal's Tower with Falcon Hit one-shotting for 2k experience. Repeat until asleep. Then I kicked the Guru/Nu's ass, hooray for wasted time.

Also, I took a few runthroughs just to keep stealing Speed Tabs to cap everyone's speed at ** (16) as well as dumping all my Magic Tabs onto Crono for stupidly-powerful Luminaires.
---
That's really all that would separate veritable godhood from mere mortality.

[The Legend]

Unlocking the invincibility cheat code in goldeneye. For all who played this game, you understand the unending commitment and difficulty such a task requires.

[Eihli]

3rd level 60 on stormreaver. 3 months after the game came out I had 2 months in game time logged.

[BusterStacks]

I am working on a video game feat that imo will trump all of my past video game accomplishments (which are many). I am about 80% complete with this task:

*Super Mario Brothers 1
*Full speed through every level, no items, screen does not stop scrolling
* no warps
*no deaths
*various tricks including:
a) every flag backwards ducking for 5k
b) every invincible sequence kills the last enemy in the level (hard and risky)
c) breaking the brick on 4-2 that is surrounded without breaking any of the surrounding bricks
d) small fire
e) slide to start every level
f) water levels completed backwards using only the jump button (you maintain momentum until you are slowed by something)

Now, I can do every level like this, but so far I have been unable to do all of them at one time without messing up. At that point I get too frustrated to try again for several weeks heh. I do not know how I got so good at this game, but I feel I am probably one of the best SMB1 players in the world.

Edit: when I can do this successfully, it will be video taped and uploaded somewhere. No timeline is set, I just want to do it at some point in my life.

[dibbs]

Beating Original Battletoads, TMNT (I cringe just thinking about those dams) Metroid , and Double Dragon 1, which is easy til that friggin last level.

Anyone ever beat Double Dragon 3 or Lolo? DD3 you had what, 1 life to beat the entire game? Lolos levels were endless, I never could crack those two.

I guess in recent times, beating Halo2 on legendary was an accomplishment, but is quite weak compared to the games of old.

[cookie]

180,000 points in tetris for gameboy after a 5 year brake!

/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Lawrence Ng]

Finishing Ultima 1 - 9... Long live Lord British.

Lawrence

[tinga81]

I guess this is the latest, and greatest for me.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v729/tinga81/run21.jpg

It's on one of those bar-top touch screen video games. I have the record on this Run 21 game, it's been there for over a month now, and no one is going to touch it. The game directly under me was apart of the free game that I got from the top score. I rule.

Otherwise, I was ~8 tournaments away from completing Tiger Woods 2004 (completely), but Tiger 2005 came out, and I never got around to finishing it. I'm pretty confident that I could pick it back up with no problem.

[wonderwes]

http://spoonman.roarvgm.com/videogame/arc-nba_jam.png

At a local putt putt where many of my friends worked, I had the best overall record on NBA JAM, like .850 winning pct. Getting free tokens from my friends that worked there also helped. I always enjoyed taking my friends down at this game.

[dhaimon]

Those people who beat the Facility cheat on Goldeneye for N64 wins.

Now please tell me how the ¤/"#=(¤/"# you do this

[Pocket Trips]

[ QUOTE ]
I am working on a video game feat that imo will trump all of my past video game accomplishments (which are many). I am about 80% complete with this task:

*Super Mario Brothers 1
*Full speed through every level, no items, screen does not stop scrolling
* no warps
*no deaths
*various tricks including:
a) every flag backwards ducking for 5k
b) every invincible sequence kills the last enemy in the level (hard and risky)
c) breaking the brick on 4-2 that is surrounded without breaking any of the surrounding bricks
d) small fire
e) slide to start every level
f) water levels completed backwards using only the jump button (you maintain momentum until you are slowed by something)

Now, I can do every level like this, but so far I have been unable to do all of them at one time without messing up. At that point I get too frustrated to try again for several weeks heh. I do not know how I got so good at this game, but I feel I am probably one of the best SMB1 players in the world.

Edit: when I can do this successfully, it will be video taped and uploaded somewhere. No timeline is set, I just want to do it at some point in my life.

[/ QUOTE ]

you REALLY need to step back from the tv once in awhile /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[IlliniRyRy]

Tiger Woods, game boy edition, shot a 47 in 1 round.

[astroglide]

[ QUOTE ]
Anyone ever beat Double Dragon 3 or Lolo? DD3 you had what, 1 life to beat the entire game? Lolos levels were endless, I never could crack those two.

[/ QUOTE ]

never played adventure of lolo, but i have beaten double dragon 3 and i recall it being less difficult than double dragon 1. 3 is the one where you start the game near a dojo and get the ability to do the jump-over-them-grab-their-hair-and-flip-them-using-it move right? have to fight people in helicopters near the end?

[astroglide]

[ QUOTE ]
*Full speed through every level, no items, screen does not stop scrolling

[/ QUOTE ]

[ QUOTE ]
a) every flag backwards ducking for 5k

[/ QUOTE ]

i don't see how the two of these converge

[CanKid]

1st place at World Cyber Games (WCG) Ontario preliminary for Starcraft/Broodwar, tough province.

[BusterStacks]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
*Full speed through every level, no items, screen does not stop scrolling

[/ QUOTE ]

[ QUOTE ]
a) every flag backwards ducking for 5k

[/ QUOTE ]

i don't see how the two of these converge

[/ QUOTE ]

You can do a backwards duck jump at full momentum if you do it in a split-second. Try it. On another note, I can do the first 8 levels or so using all backwards jumps.

[Luzion]

[ QUOTE ]
Full sphere grid for all chars in FFX...

And all the other [censored] of course too.

[/ QUOTE ]

Thats nothing compared to beating the game without using the sphere grid. Its called NSG, "No Sphere Grid," and Im completely serious.

[astroglide]

[ QUOTE ]
You can do a backwards duck jump at full momentum if you do it in a split-second. Try it. On another note, I can do the first 8 levels or so using all backwards jumps.

[/ QUOTE ]

i thought you were talking about fireworks bonuses

[astroglide]

[ QUOTE ]
Thats nothing compared to beating the game without using the sphere grid. Its called NSG, "No Sphere Grid," and Im completely serious.

[/ QUOTE ]

i thought ff7 was gay and stopped playing after the first disc. also stopped playing mgs when i got to the boss where you had to shoot at him and it was a retarded set of pivot controls (stand in place and slowly turn for 'aiming'). but anyway i beat ff1 with 4 white mages. that's probably been beaten by some crazy guy with a single red mage or something though. i was just doing it on a middle school bet.

[bugstud]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Thats nothing compared to beating the game without using the sphere grid. Its called NSG, "No Sphere Grid," and Im completely serious.

[/ QUOTE ]

i thought ff7 was gay and stopped playing after the first disc. also stopped playing mgs when i got to the boss where you had to shoot at him and it was a retarded set of pivot controls (stand in place and slowly turn for 'aiming'). but anyway i beat ff1 with 4 white mages. that's probably been beaten by some crazy guy with a single red mage or something though. i was just doing it on a middle school bet.

[/ QUOTE ]

single white mage, actually... /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[astroglide]

aren't red wizards are bigger pussies than white wizards though? white gets to cast fade at later levels, red are 'well rounded' but have no access to high level spells.

[bugstud]

[ QUOTE ]
aren't red wizards are bigger pussies than white wizards though? white gets to cast fade at later levels, red are 'well rounded' but have no access to high level spells.

[/ QUOTE ]

hmmmm, point. the early game wouldn't be tough though, but one white is brutal at the start.

[kurosh]

[ QUOTE ]
some examples of tough nes games are tmnt (original), simpsons, fester's quest, battletoads, and gauntlet.

[/ QUOTE ]

I thought TMNT was incredibly easy. Then again, I played it literally every day when I was a kid so I got very good at it. Fester's quest bored me pretty quickly so I wouldn't know. Battletoads, yes, incredibly hard and long but so much fun. I didn't even know you could beat gauntlet :P.

[astroglide]

[ QUOTE ]
I thought TMNT was incredibly easy

[/ QUOTE ]

if you thought it was "incredibly easy" you are no doubt thinking of the tmnt arcade game (there was a version for the nes), not straight tmnt. straight tmnt involves you driving the van around on an overhead map, avoiding spotlights, etc.

[CieloAzor]

I used to compete at GoldenEye and Perfect Dark (mostly Perfect Dark). I've got a few tied World Records that still stand in PD, but my best time was 0:47 on WAR - Special Agent. I spent about a month untying the record, but it's been tied and beaten over the past year and a half.

The World Records (and videos) are listed at www.the-elite.net (http://www.the-elite.net) and they're completely sick. (You can stop bragging about your Facility times. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif)

Right now I'm competing at TimeSplitters: Future Perfect. I got started about a month too late, but I should be ranked top 10 in the world before the week's over.

Gumpzilla - If you think you can regain your skills, I'm pretty sure Twin Galaxies is offering a bounty to the highest score in Life Force this year.

[Chobohoya]

There are some crazy replies in this thread, it's obvious some of you (Astroglide) have played some pretty hardcore videogames. I will say that I was once 47th on US East solo ladder in Warcraft 3. I was also top 40 on the FFA ladder for a time, but I can't really remember how high into the thirties I got.

Also, since there's no way Surfbullet comes in here to post, he got as high as 22 on the solo East ladder, and even defeated Tillerman in a ladder match.

[bugstud]

omg the dam I forgot how much that sucked

[Terrabon98]

[ QUOTE ]
Well I don't know he's not the dude in the video, but I do know he's lying because the guy in the video made it using an emulator, slow motion, saved-states, etc. Look in the upper left hand corner of the link: "Tool-assisted superplay movies".

[/ QUOTE ]

I didn't see any such video...and since my friend was timing me, i'm sure it wasn't precise, so it might've been maybe up to 30 seconds over 5 minutes...but i pretty much run straight through the levels and use all the warp zones...it's close...so i am still the man

[Richie Rich]

... check this out. (http://www.ebaumsworld.com/smb3beat-r.html)

[ttleistdci]

[ QUOTE ]
... check this out. (http://www.ebaumsworld.com/smb3beat-r.html)

[/ QUOTE ]

that's pretty sick.
I still wanna see the one of the other guy beating Mario 1 in under 5 minutes. I couldn't download it because I didn't have an emulator, but the few that I downloaded wouldn't work right.

[kurosh]

[ QUOTE ]
if you thought it was "incredibly easy" you are no doubt thinking of the tmnt arcade game (there was a version for the nes), not straight tmnt. straight tmnt involves you driving the van around on an overhead map, avoiding spotlights, etc.

[/ QUOTE ]

OHHH yeah, you're right. I was thinking of that. I did manage to beat the straight TMNT too. That was hard as hell. I remember some jump or waterfall type thing at the beginning of the second map that always killed me.

[JackWilson]

[ QUOTE ]
I once beat So Deep on heavy.

[/ QUOTE ]

Me too. Mad props.

[Grisgra]

Rolled it over. Never scored even half as many points ever before, or ever again.

[Zoelef]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
aren't red wizards are bigger pussies than white wizards though? white gets to cast fade at later levels, red are 'well rounded' but have no access to high level spells.

[/ QUOTE ]

hmmmm, point. the early game wouldn't be tough though, but one white is brutal at the start.

[/ QUOTE ]

Because RDMs get decent armor as well as decent swords, they have the survivability solo as long as you're careful. Offhand I don't think that WHM/W's have the offensive power to fight through a 3+ pre-emptive strike starting at the Lich's Cave...I don't think you can beat Chaos with One WHM, but with a RDM + Masamune/FAST you can certainly suckout at some save state.

[astroglide]

[ QUOTE ]
That was hard as hell. I remember some jump or waterfall type thing at the beginning of the second map that always killed me.

[/ QUOTE ]

i think that would be a different game too. tmnt1 is an urban setting game, driving around a city in a van and going into sewers. not a trick jumping game, the controls were way too kludgy for that.

[bugstud]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
That was hard as hell. I remember some jump or waterfall type thing at the beginning of the second map that always killed me.

[/ QUOTE ]

i think that would be a different game too. tmnt1 is an urban setting game, driving around a city in a van and going into sewers. not a trick jumping game, the controls were way too kludgy for that.

[/ QUOTE ]

I think he's talking about the bomb defusing.

[Raydain]

Getting lucky 7777 as my max HPs in Final Fantasy 7

[kyro]

I suck at video games, so my accomplishments are pathetic.

-I beat SMB in under 7 minutes once. I think it was 6:20 or something.

- I went 100something-1 in NHL '95 for the SNES with the Senators. Completely unimpressive.

- My friend and I beat his dad and another friend 40-2 in Goldeneye.

Um, yeah.

[PokerFink]

Anyone out there play 3d pong on Addicting Games? My high score is 619.

Addicting Games (http://addictinggames.com)

[toss]

I remember playing this game when I was like 4 or 5 years old. Never lasted more than 5 minutes. (Always died in the sewer part or sewer part against Bebop or something)

[kyro]

[ QUOTE ]
Any KidIcarus players out there? That was a beast of a game.

[/ QUOTE ]

Put it this way. I had difficulty beating Kid Icarus on GameBoy...WITH THE GAME GENIE. That game was dementedly hard.

[Luzion]

Silvertear's - So Deep on heavy isnt really considered hard at all. You just need to be in good shape and have endurance to keep stomping. The pattern and rhythm of the arrows are very easy to follow. There are much much harder songs then So Deep on the japanese ones.

[Luzion]

Btw, for all you that have completely beaten FF7 or FFX, check these two videos out.



FF7 Emerald Weapon vid (http://n.ethz.ch/student/wmartin/videos/FFVII%20(JP)%20Beating%20Emerald%20Weapon%20(in%20 1.18%20min).rmvb)

A video of someone beating Emerald Weapon in FF7 in exactly 1minute and 18 seconds. Freaking crazy... or cheap....

FFX No Sphere Grid vid (http://n.ethz.ch/student/wmartin/videos/FFX%20(US)%20Beating%20Jecht%20(NSG).avi)

A video of someone beating the last boss Jecht using the "No Sphere Grid" method. That means beating the entire game without ever activating a single sphere on the sphere grid. Insane!!! /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Luzion]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
That was hard as hell. I remember some jump or waterfall type thing at the beginning of the second map that always killed me.

[/ QUOTE ]

i think that would be a different game too. tmnt1 is an urban setting game, driving around a city in a van and going into sewers. not a trick jumping game, the controls were way too kludgy for that.

[/ QUOTE ]

I think he's talking about the bomb defusing.

[/ QUOTE ]

TMNT for the NES is freaking insane in how difficult it is. When I was living in the dorms, I tried to beat the game. Everyone was really interested because everyone knew how insanely difficult the game was. "Hell no you can't beat that game; it's bullsh1t." Well I showed them, I would use the save anywhere feature and save every 10 secs or so, at the start of every "level," or just before a series of stupid jumps down in the sewers or what not. Even using an emulator and exploiting the "save anywhere" feature, it still took forever just to get to the technodome.

And then the freaking emulator rom crashed. Man was I and everyone in my dorm room pissed off. I tried to get ahold of different TMNT roms ripped by different people, but the two or three I got all crashed right before the Techno Dome. Im thinking there are no TMNT roms out there that can be beaten due to the "techno dome" bug.

I would be really interested if someone who "claimed" they beat it would tell me the ending to the game, or provide a beatable rom.

[astroglide]

i honestly don't remember, but i remember the spotlight stuff toward the end and what the shredder fight was like. seem to recall some sort of bulldozer machine at the end too.

simpons games for the nes were 100% non-fun and ridiculously difficult. maybe people don't pick up on it as much because they probably hated it within 5 seconds of play, where tmnt sucked you in before it kicked your ass.

[EliteNinja]

I beat Streetfighter II: Turbo on the hardest level without losing a round (half of them being perfects).

Same with SFII:WW, Super SSFII and Streetfigher Alpha II.

[Willluck]

My Minesweeper score is 103...who's penis is bigger?

[captZEEbo1]

[ QUOTE ]
Unlocking the invincibility cheat code in goldeneye. For all who played this game, you understand the unending commitment and difficulty such a task requires.

[/ QUOTE ]

*yawn* You need 2:05 for that I believe. I did it in 0:59.

[-Skeme-]

[ QUOTE ]
You know I always thought super macho man was tougher than tyson.

[/ QUOTE ]

Agreed. I assume this is due to the fact people play Tyson more often than Super Macho Man.. with the direct cheat code and all. I can beat Tyson pretty much every time. I can go the whole first round without getting hit usually, but sometimes he tags me with one of his softer punches after 1:30 pass.

[bugstud]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
That was hard as hell. I remember some jump or waterfall type thing at the beginning of the second map that always killed me.

[/ QUOTE ]

i think that would be a different game too. tmnt1 is an urban setting game, driving around a city in a van and going into sewers. not a trick jumping game, the controls were way too kludgy for that.

[/ QUOTE ]

I think he's talking about the bomb defusing.

[/ QUOTE ]

TMNT for the NES is freaking insane in how difficult it is. When I was living in the dorms, I tried to beat the game. Everyone was really interested because everyone knew how insanely difficult the game was. "Hell no you can't beat that game; it's bullsh1t." Well I showed them, I would use the save anywhere feature and save every 10 secs or so, at the start of every "level," or just before a series of stupid jumps down in the sewers or what not. Even using an emulator and exploiting the "save anywhere" feature, it still took forever just to get to the technodome.

And then the freaking emulator rom crashed. Man was I and everyone in my dorm room pissed off. I tried to get ahold of different TMNT roms ripped by different people, but the two or three I got all crashed right before the Techno Dome. Im thinking there are no TMNT roms out there that can be beaten due to the "techno dome" bug.

I would be really interested if someone who "claimed" they beat it would tell me the ending to the game, or provide a beatable rom.

[/ QUOTE ]

I have a rom that works, just beat the game last week after reading the thread.

I could see how beating this without emulation is an incredible feat of gameplay. The searchlights aren't bad, but that section of the game is brutal.

[-Skeme-]

[ QUOTE ]
... check this out. (http://www.ebaumsworld.com/smb3beat-r.html)

[/ QUOTE ]

Fake.

[cianosheehan]

Minesweeper expert record is 67. Cant remember my Intermediate, but my beginner is 2. I think I was ranked around 50th in the world at one point. Used to be 2nd best in Ireland. My friend used to be ranked 7th in the world at minesweeper, and he is currently the best in Ireland.