Janszoon

I think I do own some games like that.

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Guybrush

Already tried it sometime in the early 90s. Of course it was way too hard and I never bothered picking it up again.

If a game is really hard, at least it has to be funny or intriguing or something to motivate you to keep playing even if the game kicks your ass. From what little I can remember about Bayou Billy, it didn't motivate at all.

The Mega Man games are hard and good. Bart's Nightmare for the snes was another very hard game with unfair challenges which still was interesting. The old Ghostbusters was easy until the very end where it got super hard which was a bit ridiculous.

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Double Dragon certainly motivated me. I loved the soundtrack, the action movie feel to it, the variety in each stage kept things fresh and unleashing the pain on Abobo and those damn sluts with the whips is so satisfying.

Oh my god, the NES Ghostbusters game was absolutely attrocious. It was more boring then anything. I could never get past the stairs, it just went ON AND ON AND ON, and I would waste a lot of money on stuff that would prove to be useless.

The Genesis game though was pretty damn good, fun multi layered levels, great powerups, colorful cartoony graphics, a pretty bitchin soundtrack and it's challenging without being unfair, give it a try, it's an underrated gem for the Genny for sure.

I loved how it actually captured the look and feel of the movies, and who dosen't want to play as a bobble headed Bill Murray? Too bad Winston wasn't in it though, wtf was that all about?

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mr dave

there was a trick to successfully jumping over the water in Double Dragon. you had to be on the edge of the path you were on. i don't remember if it was along the bottom of the screen or along the trees at the top but it made it MUCH easier to gauge the jumps.

Bayou Billy sucked. i think i might have beat the crocodile once.

the original Battletoads stands as the most frustratingly hard game i played more than a few times.

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boo boo

You should play the Genesis version if you felt the NES game was too hard, it's a bit easier, as well as having the obvious graphical upgrade.

I still prefer the NES original though, after all the sadistic difficulty is part of it's charm.

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mr dave

i remember trying one of the later Battletoads games and it just wasn't the same. yeah it was easier, but you lost out on some of the cool levels (at in the one i played).

i also remember there being a trick in the underwater stage to refill your lives (thanks nintendo power). but even with a magazine quality walkthrough i could never get past the before last stage - the one where you're on a buzzsaw that runs along the edge of the world in a giant maze stage while you get chased by another giant buzzsaw blade. the 'trick' was that you were able to take the corners 'slightly' faster than the AI, but it went slightly faster than you on the flat parts.... so yeah... you had to memorize a giant effing maze.

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boo boo

Yeah, I think super difficult games died for the most part when PC gaming became a big thing with save states, and then the arcades died, which was home to the hardest motherf*ckers around.

Super hard games RIP

1980 - 1996

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55. Gamestop

Whoa boy, where do I start with this one?

You'd think by having such a monopoly on the game retail business they wouldn't be so goddamn anal about spending their money.

First thing, there are several kinds of Gamestop employees, but 4 that seem to be most prominent.

Token hot chicks who are banking on their large voluptuous breasts to distract you from the fact that they have absolutely no means to help you because they're too busy getting laid to give a flying f*ck about gaming.

Guys who'd rather flirt with them than pay you any attention.

Fat, greasy, balding Xbox fanboys who berate you for investing any interest in non Xbox products.

And then of course there are the head honchos who actually know a thing or two about video games who can give you helpful advice, but not without being smug jerks about it and constantly hounding you to preorder new releases or subscribe to that piece of f*ck Game Informer.

But what REALLY boils my sh*t is their buyback policy, it's a a f*cking ripoff. Say I buy a game that just came out this week, I don't like it so I want to sell it, I'm not expecting a full refund but give me a damn break, if you want to give these leeches 10 bucks for a new release that they're inevitably gonna sell again for $60 as "new" then you go right ahead, you might as well cut your own balls off.

But what can you do? They're still the best option for buying used games so I still go there, I guess some people's misfortune is my own personal gain. But if you want to sell some games and actually make a damn profit off of them (which is kinda, you know, the whole f*cking point) I'd recommend a pawn shop.

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Alfred

Gamestop would give me $3.50 for Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 (PS3) and $4.00 for Need For Speed Uncercover (DS). I just took my games and left the store. Traded them in at Movie Gallery for $8.00 and $7.00 respectively.

Never again will I even consider trading in games at Gamestop.

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the ONLY time it's remotely worthwhile to trade in at Gamestop / EB is when they're having a promo like 'trade 3 and get a new 1 free'.

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