My son thought he was an FPS expert until

mediamogul

@ruthless4u said in My son thought he was an FPS expert until:

Anyone have any other difficult games from the NES and Genesis era to have him try?

'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' for the NES. A game so difficult, most don't make it more than a few steps into stage one.

SuperFromND

@ruthless4u Here's a few I'd suggest:

Pretty much any Megaman game: I'd especially recommend the third game because even when you know a robot master's weakness, it still takes quite a bit of skill to take them down.
Recca: If you really want to give your son some trouble, just turn on this game and challenge him to beat it.
Hardest. Shmup. Ever

edmaul69

Rush n attack on the nes was one of the few nes games i couldnt beat. Gradius was brutal too.

asmithau

@ruthless4u Good stuff. Kids these days think they know it all. Back in our day it may not have looked as good, but gameplay was king. Have fun!

Clyde

Summer Carnival '92: Recca for the NES is considered one of the hardest Shoot'em Ups, as I learned today (thanks to @SuperCatFooz for mentioning it in What is your favorite Shoot-em-up?).

Darksavior

@ruthless4u Don't forget this simplistic easy game:

Sano

@darksavior That's the evilest thing I can imagine :') insert meme here

BTW don't push it by giving him only infeasible games.
Just old well known retro-games are still pretty hard to beat.
Take classics like Street of rage, super mario, golden axe, megaman, metroid series...
I don't think someone that has always known autoheal and infinite continues will do so well, at least the first few tries :)

matchaman

I recently discovered the most brutally hard game I could ever imagine. Nothing comes close.

Behold, almost 9 minutes of Hell (I'm pretty sure this was recorded with some kind of cheat):

lilbud

@quicksilver said in My son thought he was an FPS expert until:

Lion King for Genesis

OP wants difficult games, not child abusers! :)

ruthless4u

@darksavior said in My son thought he was an FPS expert until:

@ruthless4u Don't forget this simplistic easy game:

I think my wife would have me arrested for inflicting that on him.

If I can remember where my old PS 1 is I might have him try Heart of Darkness.

Drakaen391

Ecco

Drakaen391

Don’t forget we didn’t get game saves... if you forgot to write down the code, you would lose all your progress

Drakaen391

@drakaen391 daydreaming Davey was my most hated game

lilbud

@ruthless4u I got one from the SNES, Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos.

First, patch the rom with this: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3875/
(game is unwinnable without it)

Second, I'll say that the game has good music, voices and graphics. But my praise ends there. The best way to describe this game is if someone wanted to rip off Sonic but failed poorly. Like, you go fast as all f**k and thats it. The levels and enemies were not designed for high speed platforming. You will find yourself running into enemies and off cliffs.

That being said, tell your kid, good luck.

Clyde

@drakaen391 said in My son thought he was an FPS expert until:

@drakaen391 daydreaming Davey was my most hated game

Dreaming reminds me of Weird Dreams. I played it on the Commodore Amiga back then. Although "only" some kind of adventure game, I remember dying repeatedly. This game about a nightmare one has to escape from was a literal nightmare for me, I even remember dreaming about it one or two times.

So, apart from its high difficulty I remember, its creepy setting and atmosphere would be "perfect" to give a mouthy child something to fear … 😈

AndersHP

Also there's Shadow of the Beast (the first one) on Commodore Amiga. That game is really tough!

PiBoy

Ren & Stimpy Veediots and Ren & Stimpy Time Warp were probably the hardest games I had on my SNES. I vaguely recall Stimpy's Inventory being equally as hard.

ruthless4u

@sano said in My son thought he was an FPS expert until:

@darksavior That's the evilest thing I can imagine :') insert meme here

BTW don't push it by giving him only infeasible games.
Just old well known retro-games are still pretty hard to beat.
Take classics like Street of rage, super mario, golden axe, megaman, metroid series...
I don't think someone that has always known autoheal and infinite continues will do so well, at least the first few tries :)

I won't push too hard, he loves Godzilla so I'm sure he will like those games and a few others.

XVO

I was thinking about both pitfalls for the 2600 or msx. Other games you should let him play are the Ninja Gaiden games for Nes and Mastersystem :D

MadRikXIV

Any of the SNES 'Super' Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back was very very hard, Smash TV Could be tricky, sure that was just all out 'Total Carnage', I recall firing up some of the good old Shooters, something like 'Flying Shark' I failed badly despite loads of credits pumping in.

Oh, Mike Tysons Punch Out on the NES...

Pretty much anything before we got mid level checkpoints :D I'm not the greatest at FPS, but beat one of the CODS on Veteran on the 360 in under 14 hours!