Hardest games you could not beat

[elprincipe]

D-FENS said:
Great idea! I love these kind of lists. I predict this list to be NES heavy, with a good concentration of SNES/GENESIS, but very little in the way of recent games.

1. Battle of Olympus (NES): One of my alltime favorite games. BUT . . . Some bosses were REALLY tough. Some stages were filled with ridiculously annoying monsters and/or instant death pits (Crete, Phygiria, I'm looking at YOU). It was an RPG/Adventure game, except the game told you absolutely NOTHING useful about where you should go, or what you should do. Generally, you just wandered around until you [hopefully] killed something, or ran into somebody and got a treasure. What's more, the really GOOD stuff you had to buy in dangerous, remote locations. But you lost like 1/2 your money if you died! [Also, if you continued, you started with 0 money!] It was impossible to save up and hike out to these areas [because you'd fall in a pit and die, or get hit by 15 flying monkey snakes and die] and it was equally impossible to camp out at one of them and earn the money there [see above]. To top it all off, instead of a battery save, you got this asinine password that was 60 characters long (seriously), full of 1's I, 8's B's, 6's G's, etc, etc. [You can guess how many of THOSE were miscopied!]

Battle of Olympus is one of my all-time favorites, partly because it is so difficult (I enjoy a challenge as long as it's fair).  Great characters, areas, music, gameplay, bosses, items, riding Pegasus, a dolphin!  Just a fantastic game that I'd recommend to anyone who knows any non-F-Zero GX GameCube game is relatively easy.