I remember Kid Chameleon, with a insane amount of levels with no save points, that was not only fun but insanely brutal.
Contra: Hard Corps and Contra: Shattered Soldier. I've lost so many controllers to those games. Oh and I f#cking hate Contra 4 right now. OMFG. Level 2 is a beast!
What difficulty are you on in Contra 4? I already beat it on Easy and I'm working on Normal. Oh, and I forgot to mention all the Contra games too. They are SO hard.
o my god i thought i was the only one who ever fell victim to hard corps on the genesis, were you ever able to put the life code in for it? i can never get it jsut right
gha ninja gaiden 2 for the nes, thanks alot boring now i have to go back to my shrink to talk about what a collasal faliur that game makes me feel like...
You get props for remembering Kid Chameleon, it took me years to beat it. I've only beaten it once on a full play-through, twice using the second level warp.
Battletoads, anyone? And the Ragnarok sequel. Also, Sonic games have always been similarly difficult for me.
Yeah i loved palying, Battletoads and Battletoads and Double Dragon. How about the Ninja Gaidens for the NES.
You don't know what a hard game is until you've played THIS : http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/downloads.php Try clearing it on hard difficulty without looking at videos/forums for walkthroughs. I gave up on the first boss. Clear it without any help from websites and you're a freaking god.
hard game... uh... dino crisis was pretty hard oh and there was that part in FFX where you had to get a 0.00 time in the chocobo race.... took forever to do it.