Teenagers play Contra... and fail.

[Chimera]

now lets get video of forty year olds playing.. well anything with dual analog sticks

 

​weaksauce.

you want to see a 40+ year old get mad at a game, give them something with a touchscreen

[The Link]

Yeah, that's pretty weak. That being said, in order to beat the game I had to use the cheat code. I don't personally know anyone who beat it without.

[chknwing]

saw that the other day. was pretty funny.

[Jeremy Igo]

saw that the other day. was pretty funny.

Cool Story Bro

[chknwing]

Cool Story Bro

​you say the sweetest things.  makes a guy feel special.

[Mol3m4n]

Would love to see Jeremy complete any Halo on legendary, complete Witcher on the highest difficulty, or play any of the dark souls.

[Jase]

I must be a millennial because I tried to play contra, thought it was too hard, and promptly quit.

[R0CKnR0LLA]

The first level isn't even that hard either, some of the later levels are MUCH harder. This really isn't surprising though. Games today are so easy, dumbed downed and they spoon feed you everything you have to do. When I buy a game now the first thing I do is put it on the highest insane difficulty level, turn off all hints, tutorials, map guides, ect. just to make it somewhat challenging.

[Chimera]

The base levels on Contra were hard as fug

Sweet speed run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBMQhKK3Ctk

[Mother Grabber]

you want old school arcade...this was my favorite game as a kid growing up, Warrior. I used to play it in an arcade at the south square mall in Durham. First 1-1 dueling game ever made.

[dos poptarts]

There is some difference in the controls I could never nail down between Nintendo version vs arcade.

Nintendo - sucked at first, but I could beat the game w/o losing a single life playing single only.

Arcade - something about the jumping throws me off. (probably because of the Nintendo).

 

[Chimera]

Old people think Contra was hard?

Brah, please. Play Dead Space 2, Dark Souls, Lost Planet, Halo, Vanquish, Ninja Gaiden Black, Demon's Souls, The Witcher 2, Metal Gear Solid: GotP, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., etc

Y'all couldn't hang with us.

​Ninja Gaiden is the only one I would put on the same level as Contra

[Captroop]

Demon's Soul was an unfathomably hard game. That's the last game since Ocarina of Time that I actually needed a game guide for. And there has not been a more substantial penalty for dying in gaming than Demon's Soul in recent memory.

But the Mega Man series is still on a different level for me. That game I just rage quit after about 5 minutes.

[Chimera]

I used to rage quit on Ghosts n Goblins.

Demon's Soul definitely did a good job taking me back to the time before constant checkpoints. But if you want a real challenge, get a staged accidental kill on every level of any Hitman game, no witnesses, no checkpoints. It can't be done.