Hardest computer games you played.

[catflap]

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Jet Set Willy - 1984, ZX Spectrum.
Hungover man collects glasses in house designed by Salvador Dali. This game was sadism masquerading as fun. Each screen was full of enemies that would kill you, objects that would kill you and falls that would kill you. Platforming has to pizel perfect and timed to the milisecond. I played it in 1986, when I was 10, and after months with the damn game, I never came close to finishing it.

Seriously. This screen still gives me anxiety now just thinking about it:

Shadow of the Beast 1 & 2 - 1989 / 1990, Amiga
When I got my Amiga back in 1992, the 'Beast' games were some of the first ones I sought out. I mean, they looked sublime and the music was just like listening to a CD. However, the developers have been so obsessed with jerking their own graphical prowess that they forgot to put anything like a fair game inside. The difficulty was punishing, with leaden combat, situations where there was no way to avoid damage and situations where, if you missed something random, the game could no longer be completed. You had to play, learn, memorise, die, restart...repeat for weeks...months...on end.
I had to use a cheat in the end to see the completion of these games. Wholly not worth it. All that effort for one crappy 'well done' screen?

I remember Shadow of the Beast games being called Shadow of the Bast because they were difficult.

I only played Manic Miner, not JSW, but that screen doesn't look so hard - which is probably why it's so irritating

[Disco_Puppy]

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Jet Set Willy - 1984, ZX Spectrum.
Hungover man collects glasses in house designed by Salvador Dali. This game was sadism masquerading as fun. Each screen was full of enemies that would kill you, objects that would kill you and falls that would kill you. Platforming has to pizel perfect and timed to the milisecond. I played it in 1986, when I was 10, and after months with the damn game, I never came close to finishing it.

Seriously. This screen still gives me anxiety now just thinking about it:

Shadow of the Beast 1 & 2 - 1989 / 1990, Amiga
When I got my Amiga back in 1992, the 'Beast' games were some of the first ones I sought out. I mean, they looked sublime and the music was just like listening to a CD. However, the developers have been so obsessed with jerking their own graphical prowess that they forgot to put anything like a fair game inside. The difficulty was punishing, with leaden combat, situations where there was no way to avoid damage and situations where, if you missed something random, the game could no longer be completed. You had to play, learn, memorise, die, restart...repeat for weeks...months...on end.
I had to use a cheat in the end to see the completion of these games. Wholly not worth it. All that effort for one crappy 'well done' screen?

[tex]

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Welcome to DYR spoorti 1509.....Not played a computer game for 20 years but i used to have a mega drive and i remember one game called pagemaster which i spent 10 hours a day on for weeks, eventually i finished it after weeks of trying.
Gave up on gaming after realising it was not good for my blood pressure or my mental state

[spoorti1509]

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Well, The hardest game which I played is WOW(World of Warcraft) which hard to master heroes and DOTA 2 where a character called Invoker and GeoMancer are hard to master.

[stud1al]

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What was that adventure game for the C64 where there was a big house.You find the door key but lose it again and it ends up being in the letterbox? That was a difficult one but i managed to finish it thanks to some cheats

[Hooper68]

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Tir na nog on the speccy looked great at the time but what was it all about??

[darren]

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Found it tough too.
a few people ive heard say its hard.

dragons lair on nintendo entertainment system. Couldn't get past the second screen!

[johnniewalk]

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Spider Solitaire and sniperteam2 are hard which i have played .

[spuggybridge]

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Nodes of Yesod on the speccy (my favourite game), i've been trying to complete this since 1985

[Moondog]

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Bart vs the Space Mutants (Various)
Ecco the Dolphin (Megadrive)
Chakan the Forever Man (Megadrive)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (NES)
Ninja Gaiden (Xbox)
Gods (Megadrive)

[catflap]

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Beach Head - last level - on Commodore 64. Never did manage to shoot all the blocks before the big gun swivelled around and nailed me.

[MiniMort]

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Dragons Lair on Nintendo Entertainment System. Couldn't get past the second screen!

[Pussywillow]

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F19 and latterly F117a Stealth bomber.

Late 80's early 90's. go obsessed with it. Super game of flying an American Stealth Bomber on missions. Long games used to last an hour of more sometimes, depending on the mission. The hardest part was landing the damn thing. Even harder was landing on the aircraft carrier. Many missions were ruined cos I couldn't land it !

My son, now a post grad software developer irnically, found this game in a charity shop several years ago. I started playing it again also a few years back. I actually read the manual and worked out how to drop bombs of various types, which targets to drop them on. I STLL couldn't land the damned thing no matter how I tried !

[Cartimand]

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A few old Speccy games I never managed to complete. Notably the incredibly irritating Starion - a wire-frame space game a bit like Elite, but with anagrams you had to solve. One near the end had one too many (or few - can't remember) letters which resulted in the game crashing. Also never completed Tir Na Nog, Dun Darach or Valhalla - those were great games though. Much more recently I gave up on Xbox One horror game Outlast, which was frustrating as hell with the batteries running out in your video camera every few minutes.

[moogleymog]

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Barbarian on the Spectrum comes to mind first, maybe because of the disappointment as the box art and back story were impressive. It took me ages to get past the first crouching monster and when I did I did not get far.