ITT: endurance games

[Anonymous No.10491891]

Games that required a long playthrough in one sitting due to no level saving or password system
Hard mode: games that didn’t have a level unlock cheat

[Anonymous No.10491894]

mario 3

[Anonymous No.10491903]

>>10491891
Solomon's Key

[Anonymous No.10491904]

Everything on PS1, because mom figured the console and games were enough and didn't want to invest more into an already expensive toy.

[Anonymous No.10491939]

>>10491891
This was one of my first SNES games. I appreciate my parents trying but man did that game fucking suck.

[Anonymous No.10491969]

>>10491904
I thought I would be fine without one because it was just going to be arcade games and fighters and shit like that. Then I got Resident Evil and realized I pretty much had to have one or there was no point.

In retrospect, selling these things without a memory card of some kind out of the box was a borderline scam. Yeah, technically the console worked without them but considering save states had been a common thing since the NES days that's a hell of an omission. The thing was basically useless for 90% of games until you coughed up the extra dough for a memory card. What a fucking shakedown that was

[Anonymous No.10491981]

terra cresta ii
probably the longest pc engine shooter, over 75 minutes long

[Anonymous No.10491983]

>>10491904
I remember for a significant period of time my afterschool routine was doing homework then playing mgs1 until dinner and just losing my progress, and I was fine with this. would usually get to the ninja fight

[Anonymous No.10492080]

>>10491939
>This was one of my first SNES games. I appreciate my parents trying but man did that game fucking suck.

I never really put much time into this one, but I do remember it being pretty bullshit hard. But I really dug the soundtrack...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we6Hg-fFc5A&list=PL224CFF3B77A60C49&index=4

[Anonymous No.10492094]

>>10491904
I had a third-party memory card that constantly lost saves, which was a different level of hell from yours.

[Anonymous No.10492096]

>>10492080

https://youtu.be/BqgCsdFaJlU?list=PL224CFF3B77A60C49

[Anonymous No.10492324]

>>10491891
Arcade's Revenge has an absolute BANGER of an OST... but that's about all it has. I mean, I guess it controls well, and looks fine... and that's why it's so much of a pain, it gets all of the fundamentals of a good video game right! All they had to do is, well, NOT FUCK IT UP... but this is LJN, so it's no wonder that they did just that, by messing up all design decisions possible, which is a real shame...

I mean, not only are most levels filled with a ton of garbage in them that makes them not fun to navigate, the lack of FUCKING CONTINUES makes this borderline unplayable unless you just cheat.

ALL they had to do was put checkpoints on levels and give players unlimited continues, it would be hard anyways, but a lot more fair and even fun in a way... as it is, it's just a complete disaster...

[Anonymous No.10492330]

>>10491891
My brothers and I had broken the game up into sections and we made a lot of progress. A shame that none of us could do cyclops

[Anonymous No.10492409]

>>10491891
Curiously, another retro Marvel game.
Completely different from the arcade version, this was an action platformer. Not necessarily a bad game, but it's just a bit too long to start from scratch each time. Iron Man and Vision being "kidnapped" and thus unplayable was also disappointing.

[Anonymous No.10492420]

>>10492330
Pretty much my friends and I. Each one of us got good at different levels (I did Storm's), we could beat them without ever dying. All good until Cyclops, no matter how many times we tried, those damn minecarts fucked us over. I think we got to finish the first stage, but never the second one.

[Anonymous No.10492792]

>>10491891
Plok desperately needed saving

[Anonymous No.10493002]

>>10491891
Doom for the SNES.

[Anonymous No.10493249]

>all these people crying about never getting a PS1 memory card
Did none of you ever ask for a memory card instead of a video game for a birthday or christmas? It was an easy fucking sell since the memory card was cheaper than most games.

[Anonymous No.10493261]

>>10493249
>getting one (1) single game for birthday or christmas
Were everyone poorfags back then? For a brithday you should at least be getting something like a new console or something. A memory card was 20 bucks, you could mow the lawn for that money.

[Anonymous No.10493524]

>>10492324
>I mean, not only are most levels filled with a ton of garbage in them that makes them not fun to navigate, the lack of FUCKING CONTINUES makes this borderline unplayable unless you just cheat.

It has the standard 'we gave it to playtesters for a weekend' QA feel that LJN was kinda known for. But I feel like LJN was making some improvements as a publisher before they sold out to Acclaim. Arcades Revenge doesn't really feel bad to play, it has a great soundtrack. But the game design feels chaotic. Game is really hard.

[Anonymous No.10493536]

>>10492324
From LJN's perspective there was no need to put much effort into the game because the name recognition of the IP sold it for them. If your game is an original creation you need to convince people to buy it through positive buzz and word of mouth. If it has Spider-Man on it you just put it out there and wait for people's moms to buy it because their kid likes Spider-Man.

Of course it was the same for all licensed properties for much of the early gaming industry, and in part it was because the companies doling out the licenses didn't give a fuck about games and were happy just to make the extra cash. They just handed things over to the highest bidder and didn't really a give a fuck about the results. It took a while for them to realize having half-assed games attached to your IPs was a bad look. Shit, given how the recent Avengers game went I'm still not sure everyone got the memo

[Anonymous No.10493542]

Mega Man 1 was pretty arduous.

[Anonymous No.10493603]

People who complain about any part in Castlevania III need to make a serious attempt at finishing Wizards & Warriors III. And they need to get at least far enough to face one of the sections pictured at left.

[Anonymous No.10494689]

>>10493261
OP said his mother didn't want to spend $20 on a memory card because the games already cost enough money. Others have said they never had one as well. Not everyone lived in the suburbs where there were lawns to mow.
You sheltered types always stick out like a sore thumb in how you can't picture people living a life different than yours.

[Anonymous No.10495096]

>>10493524
>>10493536
It really is a shame... because Arcade's Revenge genuinely feels like it COULD'VE BEEN good, by LJN's standards at least... and yet the messed it ALL up by raising the difficulty as much as they did, with cheap design choices and traps in the levels to catch players off guard, and what hurts the most is that this was probably done so they couldn't beat it over a rental... what a shame...

I mean, it really was the standard of the time, I get that... but FUCK, Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin on SEGA consoles, and SEGA's X-Men titles were ALL SUPERB for their time, so it could've been done, especially when mixing both of these IPs when their popularity was at an ALL TIME HIGH.

[Anonymous No.10496014]

>>10491891
Based Geoff and Tim follin

[Anonymous No.10496173]

>>10491891

[Anonymous No.10496312]

Who the fuck didn't have a memory card with their PS1? My mom was never the most tech-literate person but if you or the Electronics Boutique clerk told her you needed a memory card she assumed it was probably something important and forked out the $20 for it.

[Anonymous No.10496319]

>>10496312
Same.

[Anonymous No.10496357]

>>10491891
As usual the Follins Brothers never disappoint, this game delivers in the music department.

[Anonymous No.10496443]

>>10491894
>1991
>9 years old
>life moves fast, barely have the patience and awareness to beat any of my games let alone sit there for more than a few hours
>Beat the first few worlds maybe hundreds of times with my best bros
>becomes too difficult right around the ice stages
>get a game genie
>infinite lives activated!
>make it to the final battle with bowser
>bladder still the size of a walnut
>get up real fast and run to the bathroom to go pee
>come back
>Game is frozen probably from being jostled when I got up

Lesson learned that day. I still go back and beat it once in a while.

>>10492409
Core memory unlocked. that was another one that we just could not beat without a game genie. Had great vibes and graphics but was just too hard.

[Anonymous No.10497938]

>>10496443

Did you ever learn about Mario 3's warp zone? My childhood experiences with that game generally involved either warping to some world of my choice and then messing around for a while before giving up, or warping to the last world and actually finishing the game. I never even considered playing through all the worlds, with or without cheating, in one session - until I randomly decided to do so as an adult one time. And yeah, according to that experience, Mario 3 definitely belongs in this thread. (It doesn't qualify for OP's hard mode though, since it has a warp system.)

[Anonymous No.10497968]

>>10491891
This absolute piece of shit
>6 hours main campaign
MY FUCKING GOD

[Anonymous No.10498490]

>>10492792
god this shit's fucking torture on real hardware. I must've kept this on for like 2 days straight and got severe Plok-brainrot by the final boss.

[Anonymous No.10498504]

>>10491891
Zelda: A Link to the Past. It has a save function, but using it counts as a death and so getting a 000 run requires a nonstop playthrough from start to finish.

[Anonymous No.10498506]

>>10491891
Rampage NES

Took me like 2-3 hours to be it as a kid. I also did it several times.

[Anonymous No.10498615]

>>10496173
Original Sonic 2 had a hidden stage select.
The phonefag version you've posted has a built-in level select.

[Anonymous No.10498934]

>>10496173
I genuinely think Sonic 2 would've been 10x better if it had Sonic 3's save system, especially when going for 100% with those garbage special stages... fuck, I still have the trauma and scars those stages left in me, absolute BS...

P.S. I did beat it 100% once, and I'll never do it again because fuck that, it makes a playthough less enjoyable, especially due to Super Sonic.

[Anonymous No.10499083]

>>10491894
I never understood why this game didn't have battery saving.

[Anonymous No.10499090]

>>10493261
>Were everyone poorfags back then? For a brithday you should at least be getting something like a new console or something.
Look at Mr. Moneybags over here!

[Anonymous No.10500046]

castlevania had saves on the fds, but none of the cartridge versions. it's not very long, but easy to get stuck. then there's castlevania the adventure on gameboy. this one's even shorter, only about 20-30 minutes without game overs, but a lot of the game is trial and error to find the right strategies, so you'll end up getting game overs just to inch a little bit further and replay the parts you know how to do. once you figure everything out, you could do a 1cc easily, so it's kind of a good fit for gameboy which has limited battery, but once i beat it i had absolutely no desire to ever touch it again.

[Anonymous No.10500078]

>>10498615
I just grabbed the first Sonic 2 image off Google, anon. Don't overthink it.

[Anonymous No.10500980]

>>10497938

We knew about the first whistle and found out about the second second one around 94' so we had moved on to other games by then.

We all understood it didn't count as beating it if it was used.

[Anonymous No.10501164]

>>10500078
>Sonic treating women as a CHAD should.

[Anonymous No.10501174]

>>10492792

It's the first game I've ever played and I've tried to beat it on and off for the past quarter century. I've never gotten past the second fleapit level.

[Anonymous No.10501907]

>>10496173
game isn't that long. i can beat it within 30-40 minutes
https://youtu.be/oR2HjN_GEZ8?t=3409
my favorite part of the game

[Anonymous No.10501914]

>>10497968
you can save your progess. i know because i used to own it for dreamcast.
i beat it like a year ago using a dreamcast emulator. Once you get the grinchcopter in the under water level the game becomes super easy. presents you couldn't get before become super easy to get and you die less

[Anonymous No.10501936]

>>10492792
you get plokontinues what you talking aboot

[Anonymous No.10501941]

>>10495096
>what hurts the most is that this was probably done so they couldn't beat it over a rental

You're probably right and the real annoying part is that I doubt it actually helped sales at all. I mean, yeah, nobody who rented it was beating it overnight but because it was such an unenjoyable slog nobody who rented it was rushing out to buy a copy so they could finish it either

[Anonymous No.10502168]

>>10501941
Exactly, I have no idea how they though THIS was going to make anyone go out of their way to buy it... like, "Oh, I just HAVE to complete Spider-Man & X-Men in Arcade's Revenge!" or something, I'm sure it's what they thought, which just makes all feel more ridiculous. There were a ton of better options on both the SNES and Genesis in 1992, I mean, Genesis got Sonic 2 that year, for example.

It's a real shame, because Spider-Man controls so well in this... it could've been a genuinely GOOD LNJ title, which is crazy, and yet they managed to ruin it with a bunch of BS that wasn't needed...