[QUOTE="aryoshi"]For the longest time, I tried to beat Zelda II and was unsuccessful. Although 16 years later.. I managed to! Twice in a row in fact. I also managed to beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles after 18 years. Now my next challenge awaits me, Blaster Maser...Emerald_Warrior
That deserves some recognition! Kudos, my friend!
I think I've beaten Zelda II once, maybe twice. I know it's been at least once, though. I got lucky. That final run to the final dungeon is hell, then still having to survive the brutally difficult dungeon, and finally having to beat not one but two insanely hard bosses without a game over is crazy hard. And Shadow Link usually beats me pretty soundly.
TMNT 1 for NES, I have NEVER beaten. And I've owned that game since I was 6 or 7, I received as one of the games I got with my NES at that age. I can get past the Van level (which took me forever to navigate that maze of a level before I figured it out) and get to that sprawling Airport level. That's as far as I have seen into the game. I never came across Shredder or Krang once, so I'm sure it wasn't near the end yet. Oh, and the damned seaweed in the underwater level is just plain unfair. There's no way, that anyone, ever has made it through that without taking bit of damage. It's impossible.
*Bows* Thank you kindly! They were difficult feats that I'm very proud to have overcome. I always found Death Mountain to get the hammer to be a trial as well, I mean they first pit you in the first two palaces against some moderate to frustrating difficulty, then suddenly you're bombarded with a $!&^storm of creatures right out of hell itself. But getting to the final palace is horrible too. So is navigating the Great Palace itself. The hardest part about TMNT is actually the final stage. I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying this, in fact if anything I'm giving a warning, there are these guys in jetpacks that make your life a living hell, it's terrible. Shredder himself was quite easy dispite the difficulty of the rest of the game. The airfield is a tough level but once you learn how to master it, the only tough part is near the end of the stage in which you have to avoid getting squished by spiked walls that close in on you. And yeah, the way the underwater stage is designed negates any possibilities of making it through without taking damage. The sprites are too big to navigate through the seaweed, they should've cut it down a bit and made the seaweed a little less thick. It's even easy to take damage while being as careful as possible and it seems you're going through the opening, it still gets you, so the hit-detection on it is also horrible. 
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