(06-15-2018, 05:27 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(06-15-2018, 05:08 PM)pirkster Wrote: 1.  Riddle of the Sphinx.  I never understood how it was supposed to finish.  It became so frustrating and confusing, I just no longer cared enough to beat it.  Fun to play, not so fun to finish.

2.  Punch-Out.  OMG was it hard to run the gauntlet until the end.  100% earned.

3b. Runner up - the original Halo.  As the game got bigger and bigger, towards the end I felt the difficulty actually dropped.  You became better equipped and the challenges became a numbers game - just more enemies thrown at you.  I was surprised when I had completed the game.  That was it?!?

I know you loved Last of Us.  I did, too up until the ending.  I disagreed with the character's forced decision.  So - to me that was just as disappointing as LA Noire ending.  I loved both aside from the endings, though - don't get me wrong.  I thing both still are must-play/have games.

1.  Was that the old Atari 2600 Riddle of the Sphinx?  if not, what system?

2.  Is this the stand up arcade game, or Mike Tyson's Punchout?  I actually beat both, and both were quite satisfying.  Both were challenging, very fun to play, and in the case of the stand up arcade game, I did it in front of one of my very good friends who used to root for me to fail at most video games, and he cheered when I beat the champ!  Of course, once you beat Mr. Sandman, they cycled through the opponents again, and Glass joe kicked my butt the second time around.  Punchout was one of those games that just "clicked" with me.

3.  I heard Halo was very easy.

I was only mildly disappointed with the ending of TLOU.  L.A. Noire's ending infuriated me.

BTW, Pirk, did you ever get any of the Far Cry games?

Yes... Riddle was 2600.

Mike Tyson/NES was the one I played.  I had forgotten that began as a coin op.  Going back to coin op opens things up even farther... Dragon's Lair was probably the most frustrating/most rewarding to finish.  Some of the cut scenes dropped you in to the next puzzle so fast it was hard to get the timing down and some moves didn't seem to make sense.  But if you could finish it (or watching someone finish it) was a real treat at the time.

Nope, never did get any Far Cry.  I don't think there's only a couple PS4 versions, and I might check them out later as the price drops used.

Contra was a NES game I found pretty rewarding.  Double Dragon was another cooperative game that was a load of fun (Genesis and coin op.)

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