About a month ago I plugged up the old NES with the mission of finally finishing off some of the games I was never able to conquer as a kid that were still waiting in the closet with their 25-year-old championship belts.
First on my list was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; I don't rememeber making it past the underwater stage more than once as a kid. It took about a week of practice but I finally got through the whole thing. The key to this one is really switching out turtles mid-fight to maximize hitpoints (which is something I didn't know was possible I was a kid, probably explains why I never made it very far)
Needless to say after playing through the levels for the 100th time and finally beating it, I was a bit disappointed by the "ending".
......for real? It literally just cuts to that after you kill Shredder, then loops back to the title screen. Awesome, thanks Ultra.
So last night I had a victory that prompted me to write this post in celebration: I finally finished Blaster Master. This one was a struggle; the game itself isn't really that difficult with the exception of some of the boss fights. I almost went insane at one point trying to kill the second crab boss. Once I got that down, the rest was relatively downhill. And finally...
Somehow the enthusiastic Engrish and sweet Sophia III emblem made this ending much more rewarding. The "Very Thanks..!!" screen is preceded by a nice little panoramic cut-scene of Jason and Fred reunited at last.
So if you have a game that you could never get through, I'm challenging you to dust off your consoles and give some of those unbeatable bastards a second shot.
I'd also like to hear if anyone else has had recent victories of this nature, or even post a screen-cap for proof a-la Nintendo Power. Emulator-based victories are welcome as well with the understanding that bragging rights are forfeited if you used save states 
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Edited by bachamn, 09 June 2015 - 06:20 AM.
