rdrunner

Easiest: I haven't played anything already mentioned here, so I'll go with Pac-Man for Atari 2600 vs one ghost. Hardest: I'll just throw out 3 NES games I beat without any sort of help: Gauntlet Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Castlequest

Same here. I hear things ranging from "this is great" to "can't stop playing" to "ruined my life". Do I really need that?

8/10 - Had some great times with this one. Nice simple kid strategy game. Oh and I never hunted. I would just trudge on to the next fort or starve trying.

3/10 - I know fighting games are usually best played in multiplayer, but the AI in this game was unplayable for me. I slogged through it once just to see the final boss, but it was a painful couple of hours with roughly 10-15 minutes between wins. No thanks!

Had fun playing all sorts of Mario games for the first time with my kids. Also another interesting year of AtariAge. S Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (Switch) Super Mario Galaxy (Switch) A Castlevania Anniversary Collection (Switch) Deja Vu (NES) Double Dragon 4 (Switch) New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe (Switch) River Raid (Atari 8-Bit) Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Switch) The Talos Principle (Switch) B Brain Challenge (X360) Donkey Kong (Atari 8-Bit) Flob (Atari 8-Bit) Galaxian (Atari 8-Bit) Gateway to Apshai (Atari 8-Bit) Gremlins 2 (NES) Inside (Switch) Mega Man 10 (X360) Mole Mania (GB) One Finger Death Punch (X360) Super Mario Sunshine (Switch) Turmoil (Atari 8-Bit) C Abadox (NES) Astyanax (NES) Caverns of Mars (Atari 8-Bit) Contrast (X360) Desmond's Dungeon (Atari 8-Bit) Diamond Mine (Atari 8-Bit) Drelbs (Atari 8-Bit) Getaway (Atari 8-Bit) Gyruss (Atari 8-Bit) Keystone Kapers (Atari 8-Bit) Rear Guard (Atari 8-Bit) Super Pac-Man (Atari 8-Bit) Tales of Dragons and Cavemen (Atari 8-Bit) Zaxxon (Atari 8-Bit) D Boulders and Bombs (Atari 8-Bit) Galaga (Atari 8-Bit) Rockman (Atari 8-Bit) Space Fortress Omega (Atari 8-Bit) F Caverns of Mars 2 (Atari 8-Bit) Hijack (Atari 8-Bit) Pinhead (Atari 8-Bit) Zone X (Atari 8-Bit)

I actually like Lolo 3 the most. I beat 1 and 2 in a single rental back in the '80s. It took a REALLY long time for me to beat 3 for the first time, but I like that I had to work for it.

Super Mario 3D World. Beat all the extra stages, including the final ones that take forever to unlock. Calling that 100% despite the technicality of having to unlock the last stickers by completing everything with all other characters.

So this is probably one of those "games as art" things then? I can live with that I guess. Thanks for setting expectations.

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I can vouch for Talos Principle. Played through it this year and had a great time. It's probably a step below Portal, but then again what isn't? Stanley is probably my next puzzle game after I finish a few other projects. Heard great things (and yet not, since reviews are afraid of spoilers).

4/10 - There were waaaay too many "match 3" games in the early '90s and this was one of the worst. Also one of the worst games to carry the name of Tetris.

Can't vote, but this is interesting. Only handheld Tetris games I've played are the original and DS. I do have Tetris Attack SNES and yes, it's great!

9/10 - I enjoyed all the 2D Metroid games I've played (just bought Dread and looking forward to it). This one is right up there with the others for me. The linear thing never bothered me. With these types of games, I tend to just try to reach the ending and worry about the extras after.

It's been Castlevania week for me. Played through all of my favorites: Dracula's Curse, Super IV, and Bloodlines.

I continued through it as a kid. Never saw it in arcades where I lived, so I had nothing to compare it to. Other than being really hard, it's not a bad game.