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The 21 Hardest Nintendo games ever

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NGamer descends through the various circles of hell, in search of the toughest games ever to star on a Nintendo platform. Abandon hope all ye that enter here...

In the beginning there was the word. And the word was 'argh goddamnityouevilgame'. Yes, ever since the serpent challenged Adam to a game of 'dare you pluck from the tree of knowledge' - a Kerplunk prototype - man has obsessed over challenges of soul-destroying difficulty.

The number one peddler in frustration? That would be Nintendo. From the stinging paper cuts delivered by their early Hanafuda cards, to their dual screen screammaker Contra 4, Nintendo have been responsible for a downpour of tricky titles to douse even the most resilient gamer's spirit.
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Tsalagi - 636 days 2 hours ago
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1 - I like how they put "Metal Gear Solid" instead of Metal Slug 3
The two hardest NES games to me were Super Ghouls and Ghosts and Time Lord. G&G made we want to fly to Japan and kill the programmers after i finally beat it and had to start over. Time Lord was difficult the whole game but the hardest part was the boss in the old west stage. I swear it takes an hour to kill that guy.
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Tempist - 635 days 7 hours ago
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Yeah, that's an inexcuseable error. It just shows how much editing CVG actually does.
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Jack Bauer - 636 days 1 hour ago
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The Resident Evils are pretty tough games

i don't understand super mario galaxy on there, its time consuming, not hard tho.
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miles-prower - 636 days ago
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yes i agreed with you Resident Evil is hard
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nintendojunkie24 - 507 days 17 hours ago
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3.1 - ...nah
Try beating REmake on hard with invisible enemies.....actually it wasn't all that hard...but for most peeps it would be.
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Tyrael - 635 days 23 hours ago
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I am probably the only one who had this problem but I could never beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the NES
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hades07 - 635 days 4 hours ago
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Definately not, so many people had trouble with that game. The angry video game nerd even does a video on how freakishly hard and unfair the game is.
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BlaST_ProCesSiNG- - 635 days 21 hours ago
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6 - WTF
No Subzero for N64!? That game should definitely be on the list!
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RecSpec - 635 days 21 hours ago
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7 - 3 problems with this list
AW2? The campaign was that bad? I must be a genius then, it was cake to me

What's up with circle 4? Those aren't nintendo games?

21 is way too much for a list, narrow it down some.
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LJWooly - 635 days 20 hours ago
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Rugrats on Game Boy. That was some hard shiz.
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LJWooly - 635 days 20 hours ago
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Wait... Mario Galaxy? Come on!!
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LeonSKennedy4Life - 635 days 17 hours ago
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10 - um...
I'm sorry, but what game is harder than Contra? Metal Gear is a distant, but well-deserved second.
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LeonSKennedy4Life - 635 days 17 hours ago
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10.1 - WAIT
I take that back!

I forgot about "I Wanna Be The Guy".
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kewlkat007 - 635 days 17 hours ago
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11 - How about 3-D World Runner?
anybody ever beat that game?
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SteveZim1017 - 635 days 5 hours ago
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this isnt a list of 21 nintendo games, alot of them arent even real console games but hacks and roms. It should be titled "21 really hard games that all have some loose affilitation to nintendo or one of their IP's"

On a side note I did feel quite vindicated when I beat the Luigi purple coin stage on mario galaxy
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nintendojunkie24 - 507 days 17 hours ago
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13 - ...one..I think that was the name....
"One" for playstation ...if I remember was unbelievably hard....at least it was at the time.
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