Top 10 Retro Video Games Kids Today Would Most Likely Give Up On

Retro games were notorious for being very difficult, while modern games can be difficult most of them weren't as neary as difficult as a lot of those retro games, this list is for those really difficult retro games kids today will are likely to give up on.
The Top Ten
1 Silver Surfer
2 Ninja Gaiden
3 Ghosts N' Goblins
4 Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
5 Contra
6 Metroid (NES)

All the kids would just look up how to shut down the game and the result is "Metroid Engage Ridley Code AT 3AM WORKS! "

Unless you have a strategy guide in hand your going to find yourself stuck.

I'm pretty sure they'd give it up then too

7 Castlevania

Yet another difficult nes game a lot of the later enemys take up a huge amount of hits to kill not making things easy are the flying Medusa heads that fly at you while your trying to defeat enimies and youll constantly find yourself getting knocked back into pits.

8 Mike Tyson's Punch -Out!!

Its less of a boxing game and more like a puzzle game where you need to figure their fight pattern to figure out how to beat them, the trick is the timings are incredibly tight your only given a few seconds to attack before they strike but the moment that'll really make kids today give up is facing Mike Tyson whose incredibly cheap and can take you down with a few hits.

9 Battletoads

This game mercifully beats you down and has you begging for more, The first two stages are managable but the games difficulty really cranks up at level 3 the pod racers which starts fairly enough but holy hell does it speed up quickly pushing your reflexes to the limit.

10 Street Fighter 2010

This game is brutally hard you have to beat it within a time limit even if you make it to the final boss the timer doesn't reset if time runs out than its game over, the only way too beat it is to do everything quickly and get all the power ups which is easier said then done.

The Contenders
11 Comix Zone

No Sega Genesis.

12 Dark Castle

If the games music dosen't make you want to quit the games frustrating gameplay will.

13 Mickey Mousecapade
14 Back to the Future (Nes)
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16 Pepsiman
17 Shinobi
18 Contra III: The Alien Wars
19 Earthworm Jim 2
20 Phantasy Star
21 Link: The Faces of Evil
22 Zelda: Wand of Gamelon
23 Mega Man & Bass
24 Mega Man (Nes)
25 Donkey Kong Country
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