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Easiest game you ever played

There's a lot of old NES platformers that I am so good at, I could almost play them blindfolded. The Mario games come to mind. Also, Mega man 1-3, Batman, Rockin' Kats, Adventure Island 1-3, TMNT, Castlevania 1 and 2, Bionic Commando, Contra and Super C. Pretty much any Disney/Capcom game.

I'm sure back in the day, people could get really frustrated with games like Contra. But when you've played these games for literally countless times in your younger years, it's almost like second-nature beating them.
 
MrPing1000 said:
yoshi story had that finished within 4hours. I was pissed off.
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Same here. That was back when I hardly ever finished games too. That one, I beat the day I got it.
 
cloudbt said:
Chip 'n' Dale on the NES.
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????? I thought this was really hard, but maybe it was because I never played it single player, only two player, and we always screwed ourselves over by throwing boxes at each other.

My vote is for Kirby's Dreamland for Gameboy
 
Heh. There's nothing quite as fun as playing Chip 'n Dale on 2 Player, trying to fuck the other guy up. I like how one player can throw a crate or an apple at the other player, and the other player can catch the object in mid-air and just chuck it right back.

You could have a nice game of catch in that game, until one of the players messes up.
 
SonicMegaDrive said:
But when you've played these games for literally countless times in your younger years, it's almost like second-nature beating them.
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Which is why they don't count. This isn't about games you find easy because you mastered them, it's about games that are easy.
 
borghe said:
D, for the 3DO (later PSX also I believe).

seriously, when your premise for a game is that it MUST be won in under 2 hours, you better make sure it isn't easy enough for someone to beat the first or second time through.
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Bought the Saturn version 2nd hand 1.30 hours in the console couldn't read the dirty CD. Started all over again then made the wrong decision at the end of the game I thought it would be fun to join him...
 
Wizards n Warriors. Cool game, but over in 3 hours the first time i played it. Perhaps this really just fits into the "short" catagory.

C:SotN and WW could both have been harder. Upsidedown got to the point where you had to choose weaker weapons just to keep things challenging.
 
Vandal Hearts 2. AI was broken so that you could easily complete each battle since you knew what the opponent would do.
 
Laser Blast by Activision for the Atari 2600. Tap right, shoot. Tap right, shoot. Tap right, shoot. Tap right, shoot. Tap right, shoot. Tap rig...
 
Zaxxon said:
????? I thought this was really hard, but maybe it was because I never played it single player, only two player, and we always screwed ourselves over by throwing boxes at each other.
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I agree, I seem to recall Chip & Dale being fairly hard. It certainly shouldn't go on any "easiest game" list, at least.
 
All I can think of right now is Yoshi's Story. And I don't know if it can be considered a game, but I used to play Cross Country Canada in elementary school all the time, it was pretty simple, but fun! Just remember, always buckle up.
 
Ooh, how about some fighting games?

DOA3, for example. The first time I played it on a friend's Xbox, I beat it without losing a match, despite 1.) not even owning an Xbox and 2.) generally not being very good at fighting games.
 
Bonk's Adventure on Turbo-Grafx 16... I can get through that game without getting killed once... I might go home and play it tonight...
 
Looking back at it now, I cant believe I actually played the game, but the easiest game I played was Rugrats on the PSX. The game lasted less than 2 hours and everything was so strikingly obvious. I remember this level where you had to navigate someone through a maze to find her doll and the maze had about two turns before the end.
 
DCharlie said:
Back to the future (C64)
completed the game within 1 minute 30 seconds of loading it.
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which of course took 15 mins to load
 
Blackace said:
which of course took 15 mins to load
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Not with Turbo Loader! Crazy stripes!

I've played too many games to remember the easiest one. A good bet would Be Lunar for GBA. The game lets you refuel HP and MP at any time and the battles are ridiculously easy even for an RPG in the first place.
 
DCharlie said:
Back to the future (C64)
completed the game within 1 minute 30 seconds of loading it.
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I remember that being hard. I could never figure out what I was supposed to do.
 
Keio Yugekitai for Saturn. Purchased it in the afternoon, played through it, returned it that evening. Sorta wish I kept it, as I can't even remember what the hell it was about.
 
xsarien said:
It's a toss-up between Gangster Town (SMS)
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what? Did you have an accurate light gun or stand right next ot the tv?

Anyways, yeah, it was easy.. (except for that final boss and the bonus rounds) but it had oodles of style. Forerunner to the virtua cops.. you could shoot bottles, windows, hats and even the ghosts of the guys you killed. Frikken hilarious.

I think I played that game a hundred times over. And aside from Phantasy Star was my favorite game on the system.
 
One of my first E3s, I had an appointment with Mattel Interactive, back when they had their own booth in South Hall (I think?)...anyway, the game was called Elmo's Letter Adventure, and the person showing it to me was going on about, "Okay so yr Elmo and you just have to walk around and find the letter 'B' when it tells you to."

I remember that you couldn't die, and also couldn't even jump, if I recall. I think it was aimed at like toddlers, kind of like Teletubbies' wierd hypnotic repetitiveness...they said something about how it was supposed to get youngsters familiar with the controller and the concept of making a character onscreen do things....it was just finding the letters, that was the whole game.

There was a Teletubbies game for PSone as well, but that was *maybe* a bit more challenging, I remember there being this wierd area where you could make funny noises and I started making sort of odd avant-gardey sounding electronic music sounding stuff...like John Cage doing an album on all Fischer Price toy instruments...it was pretty fun, actually.
 
The easiet game I ever played and beat is probably Duck Tales for NES. It wasn't challeging and it'sshort. (but sweet)

Spy vs Spy single player is also very easy because the computer is incredibly dumb.
 
You're all insane if you think Duck Tales and Chip & Dale are the easiest games ever. They're not THAT bad (well, I thought Chip & Dale was damn hard... but then again I was 5), but Duck Tales at least had some pits for you to fall down into. If you don't beat Yoshi's Story in like 30 minutes your first go you're awful at games.
 
I remember when I was a big Spawn fan and bought the Spawn game for Playstation big fucking mistake all you had to do to beat the game was press the kick button.
 
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I can't narrow it down to one. Some games within a series stand out as too easy...

Megaman X5: The bosses are slllooowwww and can often be destroyed in 15 seconds by Zero. The levels are easier than past games, especially with X.

Super Mario World: Big game, but easier than past Marios. I blazed through it, only the Star Road level, where you must remain inflated, frustrated me.

Shenmue: Silly, easy gameplay. Still a great experience.

Suikoden: I don't think I lost against one boss.
 
mdm said:
You're all insane if you think Duck Tales and Chip & Dale are the easiest games ever. They're not THAT bad (well, I thought Chip & Dale was damn hard... but then again I was 5), but Duck Tales at least had some pits for you to fall down into. If you don't beat Yoshi's Story in like 30 minutes your first go you're awful at games.
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Why so? Duck Tales was indredible easy. I was used to way harder platformers than that. I am not saying the game is bad or something.
 
cloudbt said:
Chip 'n' Dale on the NES.
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Same here. I beat this game 2 hours after taking it home. Sure, I got a lot of enjoyment out of it afterwards in 2P mode, but you can imagine my parents' reaction after I marched out of my room triumphantly to let them know their game master of a son had already finished his new $50 game in a single afternoon.
 
BugCatcher said:
you can imagine my parents' reaction after I marched out of my room triumphantly to let them know their game master of a son had already finished his new $50 game in a single afternoon.
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always a popular reaction :lol
 
In recent memory, definitely The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

I was inclined to put down Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, but I died once to Dooku. That game held my hand up until that point, then in comes the old man who bitch slaps you around while Obi-Wan stands there like a moron.
 
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