A few that come to mind:

Mars Matrix (DC)
Ghosts 'n Goblins (NES)
Battletoads (NES)

The QTEs in Knights' Contract on the harder difficulties are pretty much impossible to beat without memorizing the button presses like a DDR song.

I agree with anyone who says Ninja Gaiden Black. Fuck, was that hard as hell..

Oh man. It was tough on me from the begining to the bitter end. Out of sheer spite, I earased all my save data from my PS3, and then took it to Gamestop for store credit as soon as I got the platinum trophy. I'm a collector, so I never do this usually.

You obviously have not played Bloodborne if you say that.

You literally can save anywhere in any of the Souls games or Bloodborne just by exiting the game. When you start up the game again you will appear where you last exited the game even if it means you are falling off a cliff or dying. There is no save spot in any of the games I mentioned.

What I think you are getting at (using Bloodborne as the example) is the blood echoes you get from defeating any enemy including bosses. If you die you don't permanently lose all your blood echoes but you are resurrected in Hunter's Dream or the last Lantern. If you can get to where you last died you can always get your echoes back although you may have to fight an enemy to do so. Die before you get your blood echoes back and they are lost for good. Why is that unfair?

Bloodborne even has a consumable item (can buy or find) you can use to teleport back to Hunter's Dream without losing any of your Blood Echoes.

Like the Souls games Bloodborne has an area (The Lecture Theater) where you can easily get over 10,000 blood echoes at a time (approx 5 minutes) so losing a few thousand blood echoes is not that big of a deal although over 50,000 can be a pita but you really do have to ask the question why did you not use those blood echoes to buy items, weapons, clothing or upgrade (levelling) your stats (the Doll is quite amenable)?

In Bloodborne if you pick up an item other than blood echoes you won't lose them if you die.

If you really do feel Bloodborne is unfair although I will concede that it won't baby you, then you have three choices. 1) Get Gud. 2) Get Bttr. 3) Don't play the game.

PS. I do agree that leveling is pretty much essential in Bloodborne although it would surprise me if some have compleated the game at a very low level (ie. "Waste of Skin"). In Dark Souls, I could easily remain at level 15 right up to and including Anor Londo although there are some who can remain at level 1 (Pyromancer). The main reasons why I l play these games is they teach me patience and perseverance and I have great time learning them.

The end boss on the highest difficulty in bound by flame was hard, oh my god, apart from that I find many games hard, just because I am a older gamer, not that fast and don't excell in any genre apart from strategy games on pc :(

I did finish Bloodborne btw, but only because some guys helped me against the old hunter on the graveyard I really got smashed endlessly by that guy lol

Also, the end boss in Final Fantasy 13 was increadibly hard without me grinding for ages to become OP

I started Gargoyle's Quest just yesterday. Holy fuckballs, that game is insanely hard! D=

Just what I was thinking. I just beat it, too.

All those games i played on amstrad were hard , no save point you must start all over.

I feel like I've done my good deed for the day