man we had it rough in the past welcome
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counting down our picks for the top 10
hardest classic video games to beat
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at those classic games that were
challenging frustrating seemingly
impossible but you’ll enjoyable enough
to make you want to sit despite how much
they made you want to throw your console
against the wall number 10 The
Adventures of bayou
really the character raised my
alligators has got to be tough as nails
right well in Bayou Billy King know why
you Billy features multiple gameplay
style it chips from a beat-em-up
to a rail shooter to a diving game all
of which are equally as hard regular
enemies have as much health as the
titular character one of them can easily
kill you so when you have to face three
at one save your prayers
if you move in to attack you’re almost
guaranteed to hit back
an enemy flinch for only a microsecond
well so I will have to face gunmen and
other animal alligators my old friends
oh you’re trying to kill me to a great
number 9
Street Fighter 2010 the final fight
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released two decades before the game
story is set Street Fighter 2010 in
addition to future in which
interplanetary travel was as easy as
walking through a gate to spin-off to
the legendary fighting franchise plays a
bit like Megaman always controls an
enemy’s arm unknowingly frustrating to
get past most of the enemies fly around
making them hard to hit almost
everything static in the game can be
climbed on they can get impossible to
dodge basically anything as the
character just sticks to a Ledge for
this game learning enemy pattern to
speak as there’s only a finite amount of
time to complete the level
number eight Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
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again marketed for kids should not be
this difficult some parts are literally
impossible to get through unless you
play as a specific turtle and we all
know it’s Mikey all the way bro hitboxes
I’m all over the place and when there’s
a platforming section you just know
you’re going to mess it up your first
time keep that replenishes your health
as it does of course in the TMNT world
but they’re placed almost sadistically
in the hardest to reach area making it a
deathtrap to even try to get your health
back the thing is you can’t even
memorize enemy types and attack patterns
because they change regularly to hey at
least the gameplay never gets stale that
way number seven contra hardcore
the original Japanese version of this
game was difficult enough but the
international versions just wanted us to
suffer reducing the amount of continues
you had to 5 from the Japanese amount of
incident and getting rid of the health
bar in favor of one hit still made for
one frustrating experience I can tell
you that much
how are we supposed to dodge a dozen
enemies all firing at us at the same
time without getting hit basically
madness number 6 Delta 2 The Adventure
of Link yes as much as we’d like to
forget there was a 2d side-scrolling
Zelda game it wasn’t so much that it was
bad it was just different and we can all
basically agree that the series works
much better in third person or a
top-down perspective but anyway the
second entry in the series not only
changed perspective but amped up the
difficulty to boot
the game is incredibly cryptic in where
you have to go or how to get there I
mean we don’t understand how anyone can
know what to do without using the
walkthrough there is also a huge
difficulties like very early in the game
that forces you to grind for XP for
hours just to get through it first you
get Mountain pepper fine silver surfer
there are so many ways you can die in
this game we don’t know where to begin
based off the comic book character but
we have none of the strength and
endurance Silver Surfer has a couple of
different gameplay styles and none of
them are a walk in the park for starters
you’re always moving and anything that
touch of you resulted into death and
we’re not just talking about enemy
projectiles here so managing to avoid
enemy fire and any obstacles you have to
still fire back only your enemies have a
lot more health than you do
how is that even fair number four
takeshi’s challenge being scolded by
your boss yelled at by your wife
wandering around aimlessly trying to
figure out what your purpose of life is
yeah man life is hard I mean takeshi’s
challenge is hard yeah that’s what we
meant no seriously this game is really
ridiculous there are no checkpoints and
there’s no direction plus things you
don’t do or you do wrong will forbid you
from meeting the game which won’t become
apparent to you until you play for
another hour with dozens of choices and
only one right one it’s impossible to
beat it unless you play like 50 times
with mature themes real consequences and
no shortage of absurdity it really is
just like real life totally unfair and
will probably crush you by the end
number 3 punch-out aka Mike Tyson’s
punch-out
[Music]
in its defense this game knows it’s hard
that’s why it has a code that takes you
straight to the final fight against Iron
Mike Tyson itself just looking at him
walking up to you in the ring is
terrifying these three times as big as
you and capable of knocking you out with
one punch while it’ll take a lot of
punches from you to bring him down there
are virtually no promise for what he’s
about to attack so your only chance is
to dodge randomly and help you time to
write even Mike Tyson himself can’t even
beat Mike Tyson pko the winner Mike
Tyson number two mutant goat not only
facing hordes of horrific monsters
players have to fight their own inner
fear because this game was quite
frightening for kids when it was
released enemy for hard to kill and one
hit from them gets rid of all your armor
the following hit completely killing you
it’ll take you reach the practice just
to get through one level finally you get
to the end and you realize it’s not
really the real ending and you have to
do it all again and pick up a particular
item to get the true ending talk about a
cruel joke before we get to our topic
here if you want Ervil mention
[Music]
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number one battle toad
[Music]
the pinnacle of difficult classic
Battletoads believe your hand trembling
as you ask yourself why you’re even
playing this nightmare don’t get us
wrong kind of a blast to play but it’s
incredibly hard to beat on your own
forcing you to play with a friend I mean
after you realize you actually can play
with a friend as there’s no mention or
hint about it in the menu actually the
game might even become harder if you do
play with a friend as you can hit and
kill each other by accident your house
bars are separate but when one he dies
it’s game over so good luck
hey at least that pause music is kind of
catchy right do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
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to watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
hardest classic video games to beat
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at those classic games that were
challenging frustrating seemingly
impossible but you’ll enjoyable enough
to make you want to sit despite how much
they made you want to throw your console
against the wall number 10 The
Adventures of bayou
really the character raised my
alligators has got to be tough as nails
right well in Bayou Billy King know why
you Billy features multiple gameplay
style it chips from a beat-em-up
to a rail shooter to a diving game all
of which are equally as hard regular
enemies have as much health as the
titular character one of them can easily
kill you so when you have to face three
at one save your prayers
if you move in to attack you’re almost
guaranteed to hit back
an enemy flinch for only a microsecond
well so I will have to face gunmen and
other animal alligators my old friends
oh you’re trying to kill me to a great
number 9
Street Fighter 2010 the final fight
[Music]
released two decades before the game
story is set Street Fighter 2010 in
addition to future in which
interplanetary travel was as easy as
walking through a gate to spin-off to
the legendary fighting franchise plays a
bit like Megaman always controls an
enemy’s arm unknowingly frustrating to
get past most of the enemies fly around
making them hard to hit almost
everything static in the game can be
climbed on they can get impossible to
dodge basically anything as the
character just sticks to a Ledge for
this game learning enemy pattern to
speak as there’s only a finite amount of
time to complete the level
number eight Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
[Music]
again marketed for kids should not be
this difficult some parts are literally
impossible to get through unless you
play as a specific turtle and we all
know it’s Mikey all the way bro hitboxes
I’m all over the place and when there’s
a platforming section you just know
you’re going to mess it up your first
time keep that replenishes your health
as it does of course in the TMNT world
but they’re placed almost sadistically
in the hardest to reach area making it a
deathtrap to even try to get your health
back the thing is you can’t even
memorize enemy types and attack patterns
because they change regularly to hey at
least the gameplay never gets stale that
way number seven contra hardcore
the original Japanese version of this
game was difficult enough but the
international versions just wanted us to
suffer reducing the amount of continues
you had to 5 from the Japanese amount of
incident and getting rid of the health
bar in favor of one hit still made for
one frustrating experience I can tell
you that much
how are we supposed to dodge a dozen
enemies all firing at us at the same
time without getting hit basically
madness number 6 Delta 2 The Adventure
of Link yes as much as we’d like to
forget there was a 2d side-scrolling
Zelda game it wasn’t so much that it was
bad it was just different and we can all
basically agree that the series works
much better in third person or a
top-down perspective but anyway the
second entry in the series not only
changed perspective but amped up the
difficulty to boot
the game is incredibly cryptic in where
you have to go or how to get there I
mean we don’t understand how anyone can
know what to do without using the
walkthrough there is also a huge
difficulties like very early in the game
that forces you to grind for XP for
hours just to get through it first you
get Mountain pepper fine silver surfer
there are so many ways you can die in
this game we don’t know where to begin
based off the comic book character but
we have none of the strength and
endurance Silver Surfer has a couple of
different gameplay styles and none of
them are a walk in the park for starters
you’re always moving and anything that
touch of you resulted into death and
we’re not just talking about enemy
projectiles here so managing to avoid
enemy fire and any obstacles you have to
still fire back only your enemies have a
lot more health than you do
how is that even fair number four
takeshi’s challenge being scolded by
your boss yelled at by your wife
wandering around aimlessly trying to
figure out what your purpose of life is
yeah man life is hard I mean takeshi’s
challenge is hard yeah that’s what we
meant no seriously this game is really
ridiculous there are no checkpoints and
there’s no direction plus things you
don’t do or you do wrong will forbid you
from meeting the game which won’t become
apparent to you until you play for
another hour with dozens of choices and
only one right one it’s impossible to
beat it unless you play like 50 times
with mature themes real consequences and
no shortage of absurdity it really is
just like real life totally unfair and
will probably crush you by the end
number 3 punch-out aka Mike Tyson’s
punch-out
[Music]
in its defense this game knows it’s hard
that’s why it has a code that takes you
straight to the final fight against Iron
Mike Tyson itself just looking at him
walking up to you in the ring is
terrifying these three times as big as
you and capable of knocking you out with
one punch while it’ll take a lot of
punches from you to bring him down there
are virtually no promise for what he’s
about to attack so your only chance is
to dodge randomly and help you time to
write even Mike Tyson himself can’t even
beat Mike Tyson pko the winner Mike
Tyson number two mutant goat not only
facing hordes of horrific monsters
players have to fight their own inner
fear because this game was quite
frightening for kids when it was
released enemy for hard to kill and one
hit from them gets rid of all your armor
the following hit completely killing you
it’ll take you reach the practice just
to get through one level finally you get
to the end and you realize it’s not
really the real ending and you have to
do it all again and pick up a particular
item to get the true ending talk about a
cruel joke before we get to our topic
here if you want Ervil mention
[Music]
[Music]
number one battle toad
[Music]
the pinnacle of difficult classic
Battletoads believe your hand trembling
as you ask yourself why you’re even
playing this nightmare don’t get us
wrong kind of a blast to play but it’s
incredibly hard to beat on your own
forcing you to play with a friend I mean
after you realize you actually can play
with a friend as there’s no mention or
hint about it in the menu actually the
game might even become harder if you do
play with a friend as you can hit and
kill each other by accident your house
bars are separate but when one he dies
it’s game over so good luck
hey at least that pause music is kind of
catchy right do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
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