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Don't worry. There's still plenty of tough games left. Speaking of which, Last Starfighter might be just as difficult as Dirty Harry if not even more so.

Dirty Harry: The War Against Drugs is done. One of the worst and most despicable games I've ever played. From the infamous Hahaha room to the 30+ minute long first level to all the shit that they're throwing at you all the time or constantly having to retread certain passages just because you've missed a jump or someone shot you down from the telephone wires ... I absolutely despise this game. 1 out of 10. Never again.

Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight is done.

Days of Thunder is done. During my first attempt I kinda messed up down the line and was only missing 10 points for a win, which is such a small margin in this game. Next attempt went better.

Amazing Penguin is done. A cute and quite decent action puzzle game. The controls can be a finicky at times, when you're trying to go around corners to avoid enemies and such, but thanks to the infinite continues and passwords it's actually very player-friendly.

1943 is done. Man, what a brutally difficult game. The last level is just cruel.

Kirby's Pinball Land is done. I did some gaming on the go and beat one loop of this cute little pinball game. But despite the cutesy graphics is actually a bit challenging. After a few unsuccessful runs I suddenly had a really good run, where I even got a bonus life. Thank God I had this, because during the fight against King Dedede I was burning through all of my lifes. I don't know what happened, but Kirby constantly landed between the flippers. You can

Airwolf is done. Finally! I've been playing this game on and off for well over a week putting in a few attempts here and there. Even though I've beaten this game before, I was somehow having a really hard time this year and constantly choked in the last quarter of the game. But now I had a really good run and finally beat it. I think by now I've played enough Airwolf for the rest of my life. I'm so done with this game. On a side note, if I'm not mistaken, we should now have beaten 577 games, i.e. only 100 left! Let's go! We can do this!

Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis Tour is done. I played on medium difficulty with only 1 set. I used the passwords that were provided by the game and thus managed to cheat my way to victory win every match. I felt like playing something different and came across @bronzeshield's post in the requirement discussion thread which made this game sound rather easy. Personally, I never figured out the patterns well enough to trivialize the matches, but I got good enough to win most of the times. I only really had problems early on while trying to figure out the game and during some of the later matches, specifically in Spain and Russia. My attempt at a strategy was to make a powerful stroke (b button) towards the right side of the enemy field, followed by a normal stroke (a button) to the left side and then a powerful stroke to the right side again. When done correctly this often made the enemy player run around quite a bit and move really far back in his field to the point where he was almost hugging the wall with his back. This was the right time to run to the net and land a normal stroke to the right which usually landed on the right outermost line of the field which the CPU usually couldn't catch in time, because he was standing so far back. But this didn't work all the time and there were many heated back and forths between me and the CPU player. And to be honest, I mostly enjoyed it. It was fast and intense, while also controlling fairly well. I tried Racket Attack shortly before this and while RA seems like a technically more impressive game and a more faithful simulation of the sport, it was difficult to control and I couldn't get the hang of it. So for a beginner or for some quick arcadey action, Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis Tour is actually fine.

Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road is done.

I'm currently in the fifth chapter of Dragon Warrior IV and have almost my full party assembled. Shouldn't take too long to get the rest of the game done. I also came across this legendary line in chapter 4: This line re-appeared in later Dragon Quest titles and even an anime made a joke about that, where a character dies and gets reborn in another world as a slime. Later he comes across another person whom he suspects of also being from our world so he says this to get a reaction out of her:

Thanks for the invitation, but I will have to think about it. I participated in one of the previous years and went pretty hard on it, so that it took a lot of time and I'm not sure if I would want to do that again. Or maybe I have to be a bit more casual about it? I'll decide when the weekly contests start. I hope that we can knock out some more of these NES games here until then.

Day Dreamin' Davey is done. I followed a speedrun to get the directions down, because the last time I played this, it took me quite some time going back and forth trying to figure out how to progress. So just knowing where to go and what to do was a big help. However, I couldn't do the stuff that lets you skip certain parts, e.g. a speedrunner can do the first part of ancient greece without finding the shield by skillfully evading enemy attacks. But I couldn't pull that off and therefore needed to find the shield. I also found out that you can beat most bosses by jumping around like a madman while constantly attacking. This way I managed to beat the dragon and some other bosses on my first try, whereas I previously needed several attempts. So this saved me a lot of time, too.

You can add Chase H.Q. and Burai Fighter Deluxe to the list. I beat the latter on albatross, i.e. medium difficulty.

Is there maybe some kind of trick on how to win the matches easily? I'm not good at sports games, but if it's not too difficult and just a long grind, I could give it a try.

I've just finished chapter 2 of Dragon Warrior IV. I spent roughly two hours in the casino to get one metal babble shield and three meteorite bracelets, which are awesome, because they double a character's agility. I'll probably continue with Taloon's chapter tomorrow.

Adventures of Tom Sawyer is done.

Centipede is done. Nemesis is done. Imho not as good as Gradius - The Interstellar Assault, but still decent. Super Breakout is done. I did all three modes.

@the_wizard_666 I played through it again, but this time against a COM4 who ended up running out of time. There was no different message and also no higher difficulty to unlock.

Gradius: The Interstellar Assault is done. R-Type II is done.

@the_wizard_666 I looked at other people playing this on COM4 and it didn't seem like there was another mode? King of Fighters: Heat of Battle, The is done. I'm not a fighting game guy, but this was pretty easy to get into and played surprisiingly well for a Game Boy game. The graphics were fairly decent too. I played with Mai since she's one of only two characters that I recognize and they even gave her jiggle physics ... on the Game Boy! R-Type on hard mode to get the good ending.

Battlezone/Super Breakout is done. Space Invaders is done. I did Kung Fu Master on easy. Dropzone is done according to the requirements of the list. There are several "ranks" that depend on your score and 10.000 is just the lowest rank that you can get. Also, strictly speaking the enemies are slightly different in every wave. So maybe one would have to try and see if there is actually something like a real ending or a wave where the game actually repeats itself. Othello is done. I'm apparently pretty bad at this kind of game and lost over and over again against COM2. So I thought about changing my strategy and maybe trying to get the opponent to run out of time. So I set the time limit to 5 minutes and the difficulty to COM3, because I thought that the higher level CPU would take more time to think about their turns. And initially it worked out quite well. I got the CPU down to the last minute, but by then it made is turns very quickly and the game was over shortly after that. But somehow I managed to still win, and even on my first try. I have no idea why I somehow performed better against a supposedly more difficult AI. Anyway, I'll take it.

Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters is done. Castlevania Adventure is done. I feel like I could use an emulation handheld, so that I'm not imited to the same few games on the go.

I've played Dragon Warrior IV before and really liked it, except for maybe the AI controlled companions in chapter V. But I would enjoy replaying it. And Khromak is right in that it's a very long game just for 7 points, but old school Dragon Warrior/Quest is so much fun that I don't care. Out of the games mentioned above I haven't played Battle of Olympus and Little Ninja Bros. yet, out of which BoO seems like the most fun. But there's a few other shorter games that I could play while chipping away at DW IV.

Is anybody playing Dragon Warrior IV or wants to play it soon? If not, I would like to chose this as my next side project game.