Hardest Game/Level you've ever played(not necessarily beaten...)

[FlameFlash]

Father Beast... many thanks on your efforts, but I was able to run a search on the Net and somebody has already beaten you to scanning off the map and posting it.

I've been able to since print it and restarted playing

RPMisCOOL:
*nods* There are switches, etc. to turn on and off for difficulty... generally in the arcades they set it higher so that you have to pump more quarters into them.

*cough* ripoff *cough*

Excuse me...

[Spaced Cowboy]

It was actually worse than that. There was a setting screen that could be triggered by the arcade operator that would tell how many quarters per hour, playing time, etc and then recommend a difficulty level to maximize profits. That set a standard unfortunately.

[FlameFlash]

Worse!? *shudders*

*sighs* Glad I'm more into console and computer gaming.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Sure, who isn't, but in '77 there weren't no computers or consoles. Once I had my first computer, I rarely went to the arcade/bar/pool hall.

But I started equating comp game prices to how many quarters of fun .

R:PM

[FlameFlash]

*nods* I remember doing that... though you've most certainly gotten me on the age factor... I just remember pinball machines at different pizza places.

Personally, I don't know how arcades make any money these days.

Primal Rage is another hard one that comes to mind... though I had trouble with all the street fighter-type games except for TMNT: Tournament Fighters.

[Standup]

The few arcades left in my home town are all fruit machines (are they called that in the states ? ) and no video games. I guess there's no demand with consoles so common.

It would be nice to blame my defender scores on the difficulty setting but i think basically i was no good

[Father Beast]

Speaking of that awful spitting contest in Monkey Island 2, I am reminded of the worst puzzle ever encountered in an adventure game.

getting the babel fish in hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. ("at this point, grown men have been known to break down and cry" - from the hints on getting the babel fish)

[DrSpike]

The spitting contest was a great puzzle though; each piece was capable of being figured out logically.

My nomination for worse puzzle in an adventure game would have to be one at the end of "claws of despair", an old text based John Wilson advernture game on the Spectrum. When foxed by a hallucination you had to come up with the command "disbeleive illusion". Suffice to say noone got that.

[SnowFire]

Hehe. I remember getting the Babel Fish. Or rather not getting it, and therefore being able to happily sit there not understanding the Vogon poetry, but still dying later due to vaccum.

I saw my roommate solving the spitting bit in Monkey Island II. A really annoying puzzle, yes, but I do like the bit with Elaine when you screw up.
"So, you mean to tell me that you fell into the acid pit and died?"
"Then, how exactly are you here? Stop lying to me."

[Andemagne]

must be Gettysburg on most difficult. those yankee b@st@rds just kept comin, but held the line. some regiments that had nearly 1000 troops before the battle, had only few dozens left after. man, talkin about hell on earth.

or some Heroes3-scenarios on imposible.

Great Northern War is propably the hardest scenario I have played on Civ2.

[JohnT]

Defender came out in 1980, not '77. And, yes, we did actually have both consoles and computers way back then - I myself owned both an Atari 2600 (VCS) and an Apple II (and an Atari 800, but I think those came out in 1981).

Young whippersnappers!

[Kassiopeia]

The few arcades left in my home town are all fruit machines (are they called that in the states ? )

One-handed... one-handed... rogue? Thief? Robber? A criminal of sorts. Blech.

getting the babel fish in hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. ("at this point, grown men have been known to break down and cry" - from the hints on getting the babel fish)

Gaaahh! I had *major* problems even getting to the village without Arthur getting killed by a flying brick.

[Skanky Burns]

"One-armed bandit" is the version I've heard.

[Kassiopeia]

Bandit! DUH!

[FlameFlash]

I've heard of them being called "one-armed bandits" though I still prefer my grandfather's name for them: "separaters".

"Because they separate me from my money."