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millennials think old NES games were "unbeatable"
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Date: October 1st, 2025 11:26 AM Author: Nudist Brindle Den Wrinkle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317186) |
Date: October 1st, 2025 11:35 AM Author: Soul-stirring abode some of them were very Hard, but many were Easy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317199) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 2:07 PM Author: Sick Awkward Boiling Water (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317486) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 11:43 AM Author: Titillating sable market lettuce The problem is that most aren’t that good. They make you want to not play anymore after a few deaths. autistic Gen Xers in 1988 were unfazed because there was nothing else. There really were No Games. Or they cost $200 in 2025 dollars, granted this was before NAFTA (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317208) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 8:13 PM Author: Massive Penile Appendage (No Future) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49862589) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 11:47 AM Author: Spectacular disrespectful base 100% of kids who could beat Metroid or Ninja Gaiden grew up to be troon sociopaths.
Something has to be severely fucked inside your brain to beat games that hard. |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 11:49 AM Author: lemon orchestra pit not really. You just buy a Game and Commit the fuck out of it, even if it is shitty.
I think my NES collection at its peak was like 10 Titles. Its all I did.
Now I have handheld devices with 20,000k games on them |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:18 PM Author: Spectacular disrespectful base I probably had 300-400 NES games by the time SNES came out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317268) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:19 PM Author: lemon orchestra pit that's just silly man. Did your parents fly you those Titles on their private jet???? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317270) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:21 PM Author: Spectacular disrespectful base No we went to Toys R Us a lot
Most of my family money is gone today btw |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:25 PM Author: Titillating sable market lettuce What happened? 😔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317281) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:26 PM Author: Spectacular disrespectful base Mismanagement and bad decisions by a few people one of whom was one of my parents.
Also a couple of catastrophe type things that probably couldn’t have been anticipated. One had to do with 9/11. Nothing that interesting.
I’ll still inherit a little bit as long as Mamdani doesn’t totally tank the MFH real estate market for a decade. |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 1:14 PM Author: Vibrant gaming laptop Don’t tell me, your jewish grandparents in Florida got fleeced by Madoff and lost their garment fortune (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317370) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:04 PM Author: Nudist Brindle Den Wrinkle lol no they didn't games were expensive so you played what you had until you beat them and might get a couple more the next holiday or birthday or trade one
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:09 PM Author: Titillating sable market lettuce But this was before NAFTA (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317250) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:11 PM Author: Spectacular disrespectful base Maybe this is it. I grew up rich AF and got 3-4 new games a month typically. I’d just bring the latest Nintendo power to Toys R Us every few weeks and start grabbing the ones that looked cool. Most of them were sps of course (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317253) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:18 PM Author: lemon orchestra pit do you know what Game that I bought solely from photos that ended up being one of my favorite Games of that era that I probably sunk 100+ hours into (and beat it)? Double Dragon NES (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317269) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:20 PM Author: Spectacular disrespectful base You can get Double Dragon on Xbox now for like $5 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317272) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:11 PM Author: High-end roommate Oh come on. The original Metroid was not a difficult game. My wife beat Metroid as a kid, and she is barely a gamer. Ninja Gaiden was a bitch, but you could grind through it if you were willing to play the final level a few times. I beat it back in the day, and that was far from the hardest game I have played.
Now if you beat NES TMNT and Battletoads, on the other hand, then there is definitely something wrong with you. |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:14 PM Author: Spectacular disrespectful base Ok, replace Metroid with TMNT 1 in my post. 97% of players never got past the underwater bomb defusing stage in TMNT and you cannot change my mind about that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317260) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:26 PM Author: metal ivory cuck me and my brother beat the underwater stage just a handful of times and i remember whenever we got to that next driving stage it was like crazy rarefied air (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317286) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:31 PM Author: lemon orchestra pit I beat that stage too but never beat it - I rented it a few times but didn't have enough time with it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317294) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 2:28 PM Author: cruel-hearted appetizing corn cake nah. it was the open world urban van level that was the real bitch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317552) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:15 PM Author: Titillating sable market lettuce Is your wife Oriental? Did she play on the famicom disc system? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317263) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:42 PM Author: Racy Fantasy-prone Patrolman TMNT 1 isn't a hard game. I beat that one. I could get to the last boss in Ninja Gaiden and get its head to fall off, but I never beat it. Also never beat Tyson but did manage to go into the 3rd round before.
Battletoads was legit hard. I could get to the hypno orb thing but don't think I ever beat it until I got a computer and an emulator. |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:51 PM Author: High-end roommate After all these years, I am realizing that maybe nobody other than me figured out my strategy for Ninja Gaiden. You could learn that one spin move that instantly destroyed anything, including the final boss. The problem was that the final boss had three stages. As I recall, you lost the spin move after each stage. (Or maybe its energy was depleted. I don't remember.) And if you died during any stage of the final boss, you had to replay the entire fucking final world. But when you got back to the final boss, you returned to whatever stage you died on. So you could easily beat the final boss using the spin move if you were willing to replay the final world three times. That's how I beat it without having incredible skills.
I made it to the hallway just before Shredder in TMNT, but I never actually made it to Shredder (much less beat him). I was told that it was basically impossible unless you stocked up all four turtles with 100 of those scroll weapons, which took a shit ton of grinding. I never actually owned that game, so I never had patience to do that. But I think that is another game that is beatable with sufficient levels of dedication/autism. Just getting to the final level you need to grind for scrolls wasn't exactly a picnic, though. |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:59 PM Author: Racy Fantasy-prone Patrolman I definitely didn't come up with that strategy for the last boss. I would get the fire special weapon and fall just short of winning against the final form. It would take so long to get to the boss that I would never have enough time to play through the last world enough times in a row to win.
You have the general right strategy for TMNT. In the third level, there is a super easy building with the scroll and I think a quarter pizza. I would just get 99 of them with 1 turtle (usually Rafael because he wasn't that good given his weak reach) and then just not use him until you enter the technodrome. Once there, you can use him and just blast through everything and kill shredder. The only thing you had to watch out for was the instant kill ray shredder used to turn you back to just a turtle. I lost to that the first time and was super pissed. |
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Date: October 2nd, 2025 12:17 AM Author: Titillating sable market lettuce This is all credited it's been so hard since I've played on a CRT on original hardware, but keep in mind that means as close to ZERO input lag as exists irl, which is important af in a Title like battletoads or NG. |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:52 PM Author: Flatulent Hideous Striped Hyena Center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317334) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 1:43 PM Author: Heady claret house dingle berry My bro and I easily beat TMNT but looks like there was a fraud "arcade version" released for NES after the original original so maybe arcade version was way easier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317414) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 2:18 PM Author: bearded sienna school trump supporter Metroid was very tedious though, because when you restored your game using the password, you still started with only 30 energy and would have to spend at least half an hour just building up your energy before you could go continue your exploration. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317518) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2025 12:23 AM Author: talented theater I have PTSD from TMNT and the electric seaweed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49318764) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2025 8:20 AM Author: cruel-hearted appetizing corn cake that level is an indicator of who would grow up to have a good short game in golf. you just needed to have that touch. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49319059) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2025 10:08 PM Author: talented theater I am good at putting. Can’t hit an iron to save my life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49321092) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:29 PM Author: Outnumbered hell police squad Battletoads is very hard to beat & the game gets shittier each level too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317290) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:44 PM Author: Racy Fantasy-prone Patrolman Nah, the jets are pretty fucking great. Way better than the snake level. But past that point, you're right. The last level going up the tower and the last boss/evil chick were both pretty shitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317325) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 12:48 PM Author: Outnumbered hell police squad The snake level is where it turns to shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49317332) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2025 8:11 AM Author: Titillating sable market lettuce It's called Clinger Wringer, champ. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49319050) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2026 8:13 PM Author: cowgod (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781954&forum_id=2...id#49862587) |