There's no actual fighting zombies or problem solving, just point and click and see where the story takes you. Everyone loves the Super Mario Bros. While it's pretty much a revised version of Super Mario Bros. At times it seems like the game has been intentionally designed to frustrate and annoy, particularly the wind pipes that will shoot you into enemies or off course on a regular basis.
And don't get me started on the speedrun challenges! Developed as part of the Punch-Out!! In the title, you take control of boxer Little Mac and must take on a variety of larger opponents on your way towards a showdown with the aggressive Tyson.
It's quite a fun game as you must defeat much more skilled fighters, but once you reach Tyson, things get tricky. He's a tough nut to crack, and worst of all, if he beats you, you're forced to start the game from the beginning. Similar to the Kirby franchise, Yoshi's Story is a predictable side-scrolling platformer from Nintendo aimed at pre-teens. Because of this, it's a rather pedestrian game with some bright visuals but not much in the way of exciting or thought-provoking gameplay.
The puzzles are extremely basic to master and the reward for completing them is far from exciting. You won't be disappointed. It's not even apologetic for its difficulty, taunting you with every new level you reach. As Meat Boy you must traverse over levels in an attempt to rescue your girlfriend, Bandage Girl, from Dr.
You need a deft touch playing this game, with the slightest miss-timed jump sure to end in tears. Despite this, it's highly addictive and one of the best independent games of the past decade. One of the Mega Drive's most underrated beat em' ups, Comix Zone is remembered by fans for its cartoon graphics. It really feels like you're playing a live-action comic book, with the major downfall being the incredibly annoying combat system. While essentially a button masher, if you don't work out how to beat your foes with the right combinations you'll soon find yourself losing damage.
Add in the fact that you only have one life and completing Comix Zone is nigh impossible. Everyone knows the Mega Man series has its challenges, but it's fair to say Mega Man 9 takes the cake when it comes to finishing the game without throwing your controller at the tv screen.
Released just over a decade ago, the game introduced 8-bit graphics along with unbelievably tough final bosses that you'll be trying to beat over and over again. The main reason for this is the decision to turn Zelda into a side-scrolling adventure game, but there's more to it than just that. The combat is a lot harder than previous games, particularly with the new view, while many of the puzzles you need to solve to progress are tough to crack.
Final boss Dark Link is almost unbeatable until you figure out his patterns, making Zelda 2: The Adventures Of Link worthy of being on this list. The NES has some really hard to crack games but few will challenge you as much as shoot 'em up Silver Surfer. Playing as the famous Marvel character you alternate between a side-scrolling and an overhead perspective as you play through various levels, each finishing with a hard-to-beat boss.
Each perspective has its hardships but the worst part of the game is if Silver's surfboard touches anything as you're moving he dies automatically. This makes it quite a skill to get through each level and defeat the boss without dying, something I was never very good at. Via: Ghost N' Goblins Wikia. Via: Giant Bomb. Via: Video Game Region. Via: Pinterest. Via: Cane and Rinse. Ref: arxiv. QuEra Computing, launched by physicists at Harvard and MIT, is trying a different quantum approach to tackle impossibly hard computational tasks.
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Skip to Content. Deep Dive. By Siobhan Roberts archive page. By Eileen Guo archive page. By Clive Thompson archive page. By Patrick Howell O'Neill archive page. Stay connected Illustration by Rose Wong. Enter your email. Super Meat Boy is an excellent twitch platformer with tight controls and levels designed to make your blood pressure rise.
There are a frighteningly large number of spikes, whirring blades, and swords that can turn you into mince meat at a moment's notice, sending you all the way back to the start of the level. Truth be told, the original NES version of Ninja Gaiden is pretty darn difficult as well, but the 3D reboot of the original 2D classic opened up even more possibilities for truly brutal gameplay.
Every enemy in the game from the very first battle is more than capable of destroying you if you're not careful and the bosses are just downright savage, some requiring absolutely perfect play for an extended amount of time if you want to move on. Developer Team Ninja is more well-known for the equally difficult Nioh these days, but there have been rumors that a return to Ninja Gaiden might be on the to-do list.
Let's keep our fingers and samurai swords crossed. The case could be made for really any of the Dark Souls games or even predecessor Demon's Souls to be on this list but we're going with the first Dark Souls as it's largely responsible for starting the trend that other titles like Nioh have tried to latch onto in recent years.
While other game developers go out of their way to make sure players do not get too frustrated, FromSoftware takes the opposite path. Dark Souls is a game that revels in your screams and laughs at your tears.
There is simply no amount of leveling up that will save you if you don't know how to "get good. Combine a protagonist that dies in two hits with enemies that can spawn unexpectedly all over the map and toss in power-ups that can actually hurt you, and you'll have an idea of what's in store when you boot up Ghosts 'N Goblins.
But the most sadistic part of all is what occurs if you actually beat the game. Capcom not so politely informs you that you've fallen for a "trap devised by Satan" and must complete the game again at an even higher difficulty setting if you truly want bragging rights over this title.
Like its predecessor, Boshy features some very unorthodox level design and has become a major hit in the speedrunning community. You can tell Ikaruga was originally designed to eat up coins at the Japanese arcade just by glancing at the insane amount of enemy fire that's on the screen at all times.
Despite its intense difficulty, this "bullet hell" title remains one of the most popular classic shooters out there, with ports to PC and several other systems keeping fan interest alive. The first two stages of this NES game are arguably not that difficult, but you'll soon discover that Battletoads is just trying to lull you into a false sense of security before it wallops you over the head.
Two words: Motorcycle. Hop aboard and watch your dreams of finishing this game turn to ash. Even if by some combination of luck and reflex speed you manage to complete the level, it's only going to get more difficult from there. From pigs to snakes to the God-forsaken ice cavern, there's only what seems like a million and one different ways to die in this game.
Microsoft got fans excited a couple of years ago by teasing what some thought was a new Battletoads game after the classic title was included on Rare Replay , but outside of a couple of appearances in Killer Instinct and Shovel Knight, we're still waiting for the return of Rash, Zitz and Pimple. Then again, given how many controllers we've destroyed while playing the original game, maybe it's for the best.
This game is a bit of a curveball as it's nothing like the other games on this list, no fast reflexes required.
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