The deed is done.

Once Inwas bored and started playing Contra, without the Konami Code. On a NES.

Its one of those games that just loops when you finish it.

I finally stopped a few hours later after like the 4th or 5th loop.

Another fun one was finishing GTA3 100% on PS2, without saving or dying or getting arrested

Beating Rayman 1 on the PS1 be like

That's not even that hard and it does have saves
- I dunno, getting every cage is pretty gruelling, and you can't beat the game unless you do EVERYTHING.
  
  That being said, if you genuinely don't think it's "even that hard", then you're definitely on another level, and I salute you

I bet he used the Nintendo Power Glove. It's so bad.

I beat DuckTales without getting hit.

Awoohoo

I was one of those kids. I now play roguelites and roguelikes instead

I was one and went the complete opposite direction. I don't like most rogue-likes or games that are difficult just to be difficult. I don't get that "wow, I bashed my head against it 70 times and this feels rewarding!" feeling. I just get annoyance and a feeling of wasted time.
- Same. If I spend that much time on a game, I want to be holding Thunderfuck McStabn'slash, the legendary sword that explodes enemies I look at, rather than "oh cool I can now bash my head against a wall with a slightly different character."
  
  Like one of my first risk of rain runs went 2 hours and I'm like oh man I'm gonna unlock so much shit. I did not.
- I don't really like rogues (because you pretty much have to redo everything again), but I do usually play games with the difficulty settings all the way up (not on "ironman" though). Being able to retry from a recent save isn't too frustrating, and you can finish many games without even learning or using various mechanics if you don't use the highest difficulty.
Those old NES games broke my fear of failure, so roguelikes, soulslikes, and similar games where you have a real chance of losing are my jam.

This also applies to games with permanent roster losses like XCOM or Darkest Dungeon. I can't get enough.
- Funnily enough, I couldn't get into the souls likes until now. The need to memorize boss patterns doesn't appeal to me me
- Xcom Ironman is the true achievement 😅
- You might like Last Train Home. Every soldier loss is permanent and there's only so many you can find/rescue.
  
  Based on true events, which is the most insane part. It's kinda like frostpunk and an RTS game mixed together, which is very satisfying. Souls-like difficulty.
  
  https://youtu.be/q0lJ9A4AtFo
Shit, is this why I like rogue likes?

3 lives left.

I was in my mid 30s when I found out that you could hold some button when continuing after game over in Super Mario Bros to continue in the world you died.

We just got gud and abused the turtle shell stair 1up.

You could do what now?
- I am legitimately angry to only be learning this now
Which button?! Tell me!

Edit: ah, nevermind, someone just did. Sorry for the reaction.
- "Dont worry guys I found the solution" aah comment
I watched a video recently about tool assisted Speedruns which actually educated me on why this worked. An issue with the sound card and the way user input was handled allowed certain button combinations to cause Random Code Execution. It's actually possible to beat one of the Mario games (can't remember the name right this second) on the first frame using this method, but it requires a ridiculous amount of inputs
- Super Mario World can be forced into a state where it will run arbitrary code
Whelp I was today years old when I found out about this...
Wait, what? Which button?

Edit: apparently hitting start + a on the menu screen after you lost your last life.
- Hold A while you press Start instead of just pressing Start. This is one of those old games that actually required pressing Start to begin lol.

It’s impressive because after dropping all those coins into arcade machine he could still afford some smokes.

You just steal those from your mom.
- Coins or smokes?
They were less than a dollar a pack back then.
- In the UK some shops would sell you a single cigarette for less the ten of our new pennies. Around '86 I think.
- Damn those rich American kids.

The tough ones, especially. OG NES TMNT conqueror here (as you can tell it's still in my list of life achievements).

Battletoads was the badge of honor
- That game is hard to beat even with a fucking game genie, it's insane.
- You're totally right and its one that I never beat. I haven't gone through it with an emulator either. There are some games I have since gone through with an emulator using save states that I didn't beat legitimately back in the day, like Castlevania, that I recognize would have been HAF to beat without assists. I still may try Battletoads the old fashioned way because I have a lot of respect for that game. I'm pretty sure if I or one of my friends had owned the game we would have beaten it, but we never managed to over the course of several rentals.
- I still have Turbo Tunnel PTSD
I got past the water level once...

Billy Mitchell after using emulation software

Careful, you're gonna get sued!
- ...after he sues Karl Jobs again.

Treasure Island Dizzy only had a single life. One of my earliest memories is of my sister losing her shit as she accidentally dropped the snorkel while she was cycling through her inventory underwater.

Holy crap I totally forgot that game existed. Me and my best friend were obsessed with it, drawn 3 tomes (yes, tomes) of comics about its characters.

This is bullshit.

I was there and we sure as fuck didn't use pussy ass filters until we were old enough to understand the health benefits.

Wouldn't this depend on your source? If you're raiding the parents' packs and they have filters so do you. Lots of wannabe badass underage friends smoking their mom's Virginia Slims in my time
- My first smoke was one of my mom's Virginia Slims.
- Just buy them from the vending machine.
and a swig of Maddog 20/20 was also in order. Or some Night Train Express if one of your buds was already in their 30s.
- I have ridden the Night Train. I have looked the Devil in the eye.
- I have not-so-fond memories of pink grapefruit Maddog...
There are no health benefits to the filters, they only keep you from getting tobacco in your mouth.
- Pssst, that was part of the joke. Don't tell anyone.

In my day we played like men!

Also me:

I could complete Robocop and Midnight Resistance though.

I'm going to pretend you only used that for the pause feature and taking screenshots. Otherwise, we're going to have a problem.

-- Video Game Police
- The best feature was being able to back the entire memory up to disk so I wouldn't have to wait ten minutes to load it from tape.
  
  Even with infinite lives, half these games were close to impossible to beat.
Well, there's your problem. You've plugged a Romantic Robot into the place where your Kempston joystick should be. Never going to win at Daley Thompson's without perfecting your waggle. Also, the Speccy will probably crash from hammering the keyboard if you try.

Midnight Resistance is one of those weird games where the first level is the hardest; it's not too bad to finish it if you do the first bit. Fair play on Robocop, though - that's a hard game.