PYF Notoriously Difficult Game

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The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > PYF Notoriously Difficult Game

Twitch: Apr 15, 2003; by Fluffdaddy

Away all Goats posted:

Contra (NES) is probably one of my favorite games ever and I credit it (with a few other games) with turning me into a life long gamer.

My neighbor and I would play (and beat) that game like once a day, we were both obsessed with it. We didn't even know about the Konami code or find out how difficult everyone found it, until years later when we got internet connections.

Contra definitely belongs in this thread, as it's a pretty hard game, but I think the people who think it's anywhere near one of the hardest games on the NES are people who clearly haven't played many NES games. Contra demands practice and attention, while harshly punishing failure, but it doesn't demand as much perfection as a game like Battletoads or Ghosts n Goblins. Also it's a pretty well designed game, so it doesn't have the bullshit difficulty of almost any bad licensed platformer.

I've never beaten Contra without the 30 lives code, but I could get pretty drat far in it.

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