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    Major Spoilers Question of the Day: Impossible Video Game Edition

    Matthew PetersonBy 4 Comments1 Min Read

    As someone who once spent the better part of a weekend trying to get C.J. to jump his damn motorcycle into the cargo jet already, I know a little bit about the conundrum of the impossible video game.  I never beat the final levels of ‘Punch-Out’ back in the day, mostly because I was playing ExciteBike instead.  For that matter, I’ve never completed ‘Knights Of Cydonia’ on hard difficulty in Guitar Hero, but I spent a lot of time trying, leading to today’s dynamic difficulty query…

    The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) actually gave up after my first couple of tries at the underwater level of ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ for the NES and played ‘Sim City’ instead, asking: What digital entertainment is the most IMPOSSIBLE video game of them all?

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    4. Malone_hasco on

      First place on my wall of shame of “never beaten” video games is TMNT 1 on NES. But some day I will, I’ve promised myself that and still got working console to do that.

      I used to play Punch Out so much as a kid that I still show off occasionally to my buddies wherever I happen to run into it and beat Mike Tyson. Timing and patterns are so ingrained in my muscle memory I still can do it, even if I’m not quite as quick anymore.

      Btw, password directly to Mike Tyson fight is 007 373 5963. I’ll never forget it.