Games you haven't completed to this very day? (No Cheats Allowed)

space cadet

Nes faxanadu. It had no saves!

pjft

The ones that come to mind more often were FFVII and FFVIII. God, I spent so many hours in those games - I even played VII twice - but made it to the last boss on both and just couldn't beat it.

starmaker69

man i not played much FF but i heard them games do take a minute to beat.

ABrugsch

Pretty sure it would be easier to list games I HAVE completed as I could prob do it both hands...

XVO

For the MSX
Pitfall 2
H.E.R.O
Knightmare
Beamrider

Nes
Lolo3
Battletoads

Snes
Yoshi's Island

I know could've been a better list ;)

TheStretchedElf

Kung Fu Master. After 30 years I still can't get past level 2. :D

Lyle_JP

Darius. It has 8 endings, but I can't make it to even one of them. I'm thinking it may be a two person/player job.

meleu

Little Nemo: The Dream Master (NES), I can't even reach the last boss. The last stage has 3 levels, with a boss at the end of each level. I can beat the two bosses and reach the last level. And then, game over... I don't even know how the last boss looks like.

BTW: after a continue, you have to start from the beggining of the stage, and defeat the bosses again.

backstander

@meleu
I've never played Little Nemo: The Dream Master before very recently but my wife said she had it growing up and remembers playing it a lot and that it was really hard. She said she could only get to the 2nd level. I tried it a couple months ago and I agree, it is pretty difficult!

rig

I mentioned on an earlier post that I could not think of any genesis games or snes games that were nintendo hard...but then I remembered super ghouls and ghosts, x-men 1 and x-men 2 on genesis, these games are hard. I have not beat super ghouls and ghosts but I have beaten the x-men games. x-men 2 clone wars takes FOREVER and I don't think there is a password system. x-men on snes is not easy but I wouldn't call it nintendo hard. Can anyone else think of hard gen or snes games?

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Keigan

Blaster Master
Marble Madness
Milon's Secret Castle

edmaul69

@Keigan i have no idea how i was able to beat marble madness as a kid. That game is so freaking hard now.

Arcuza

@space-cadet Faxanadu had codes instead of saves. However, it might be the best game ever that didn't get a sequel. Absolutely worth playing with save states.

Arcuza

Fester's Quest had the coolest 15 seconds intro back in the day, but the game was awful. At that time I only had Super Mario Bros and Goonies II, so I probably did spend 20 hours trying to finish it, but never did. Castlevania caught by attention a few months later.

mediamogul

@Arcuza

'Fester's Quest' flirts with being a good game. There's some decent ideas scattered throughout and I kind of like the item system, as well as getting to meet the rest of the family along the way. It uses the 'Blaster Master' engine, but the weapon power ups are really hit or miss, which makes fully upgrading your gun a necessity.

Did you ever beat 'Goonies II'? It's a game I can go through on one life. Strange enemies aside, I think it captures the subterranean exploration elements of the film very well. As retro platformers go, it has everything that I look for; great sound track, tons of hidden collectable items and cool power-ups that affect progression, slippery ice levels and floaty swimming levels. The Goonies 'r' good enough.

backstander

@mediamogul
I loved Goonies II as well! I remember beating it a couple times on the original hardware back in the day! I really haven't played it since except last month I loaded it up on RetroPie and played it for a bit. I also loved those rooms you could walk around in:

mediamogul

@backstander

One of these days I really want to beat the Famicom predecessor. It has much more of an arcade simplicity to it, but it seems like a solid title.

TheStrayMongrel

Games that really come to mind here are arcade games because you had to pay for them and cash was pretty limited when i was a teen. You'd never continue so pretty much came down to completing a game in one credit (love the fact they were geared this way too with extra men at certain scores and in Wonderboy there were certain spots in each level that you threw a hammer it'd reveal the developers initials then an extra man (E S C extra, and so on).
One that really comes to mind is Wonderboy, you could play for ages on one credit but never did get to the end. That said completed Wonderboy in Monsterland, Forrest Wardener, (street fighter 2 of course) and thats about it i think. Never got to the end of Shinobi also, came damn close though i reckon.
Not sure if everyone else found it but Ghosts and Goblins was pretty damn hard to get far on a single credit.

Good times, great memories.

Arcuza

@mediamogul Nope, Goonies II was never beaten. I think most of the time spent I wired the NES to the stereo, because the soundtrack was awesome, especially in the "caves". I did beat Goonies for the C64 however...