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I’m very glad I was born mid 90’s. It would have sucked so much i growing up all I had is 80’s or 90’s games. Even 2000’s games suck until late 2000’s except for kids games
Kaiser Sigma from Mega Man X3 to me is one of the hardest bosses I faced as a kid and overall in my life. Dude is so ridiculous with such a small hit box and it's even harder if you don't have the Golden Chip.
Spikey Tiger from Secret of Mana? A lightning-fast boss fought in a cramped space who can spin dash then leap up onto high ledges to bombard you with fire magic, located at the end of a fairly tough early-game dungeon RIGHT before you get some magic of your own. Undine would have made him so much easier.
I was a 90s gamer. What I liked the most (then vs now) was that game length seemed to be 5-30 hours. This meant your avg gamer could complete, master and replay easily…. which imo made devs focus on gameplay first. 30 hrs of nonsensical side quests was never anything anyone wanted. Modern gaming is great too… just not as great, lol.
As a kid, I didn't know about letting off of the A button to help your boost out so Whiz Pig was very hard for me..I relied on him kicking me forward to beat him.
TBF, it took an infant WWW for me to find out how to go to Future Funland. Even then, it took me years to "git gud" with the races and the BS Silver Coin Challenges. Still, a major clue for me that there was more was on completion of the T.T. Amulet.
While Emerald weapon was difficult, Ruby weapon did it for me. It would turn a fight into a one on one fight by pulling one of your party members underground in the sand. And then sometimes you have to deal with the tentacles sometimes as well. Ugh
Yup I defeated Emerald went back just to make sure it wasn't a fluke killed it a 2nd time then just could never kill Ruby even after looking at kill guides.
You're not supposed to win the first match with Ridley just survive and by the time you rematch Ridley you have almost all the suit power ups, health tanks, super missiles, power bombs so it is almost a disappointingly easy battle. I would say not knowing the grapple beam cheese that Draygon was the most difficult boss as a kid in the 90s. Phantoon took a few attempts too.
Honorable mention: Street Fighter Alpha 3. M. Bison. I remember spending HOURS at my local arcade determined that I wasn't going to leave until I beat him...and by the time I finally did, my pocket money was finished, it was past closing time for the arcade, and it was NIGHT-TIME.
Out of all of them, only Ridley never gave me any trouble. Some more honorable mentions: Zeromus (Final Fantasy IV Hard Type), Rugal (King of Fighters '94 and '95), Gill (Street Fighter III), General (Kaiser Knuckle), Kaiser Sigma (Mega Man X3)
@battlerapminis1799 nope can be done. Don't equipt final attack or counter attack. Put mime on Cloud. And regen on someone else. Don't forget the underwater materia. Start battle with full limit bar on Cloud. When the battle starts cast regen on Cloud. Cloud then uses Omnilash. Don't do ANYTHING on the other 2, just hit Tringle to skip selection, once you get Cloud again use mime, he will do Omnilash again. Repeat. Also a great way to level the limit burst on one's that you have to use X number of times to get the next one.
The final, "true" boss from Demon's Crest definitely needs to be on here. When you need every power-up in the game to even stand a chance - and then, a slim one - you know it's tough.
@HotRod996 im not saying hes easy. Apologies if it came that way. I simply meant MK2 Kahn is objectively harder. Its got a lot to do with the fact that MK2 overall breaks its own rules in favor of cpu cheating.
You often hear that "You need everything you have to beat this villain" but it is very often not the case. Wily Capsule 7 is probably the only boss where you LITERALLY need everything you have. For each of the 3 or 4 times I finished the game through I've needed all 4 filled subtanks just to beat him. Also Wizpig can suck a big one
@@dreamguardian8320 Actually, the second time is _easier._ At least then you have balloons on the course for boosts and missiles. The first time? *NONE.* It's _pure_ driving skill.
Let go of the accelerator when you use a boost! You will go MUCH faster! Taj tells you this before that point in the game and it makes beating Wizpig, and the whole game, a breeze
Where’s nineball seraph from armored core master of arena It should be on the list because this is an early example of from software bosses that we see today.
Death egg robot: get behind him! You can jump over his jet pack at least 3 or 4 times before he jumps. Then put his targeting at the 4th pillar from the right, zip to the edge, and hit him as he lands. You can finish him just as the music finishes once thru.
My strategy was to spin jump towards hias he moved towards me that seemed to work very quickly with at least 3hits. But memory has faded for that thing. I know you unlocked debug and could use a gold super sonic to finish the game time and again
@@superdave3000 it took me over 50 tries. gotta collect all the red potions, health, and chest crosses from like 10 levels back and save them for the end
Emerald weapon is easy as long as you have specific materia you need to use knights of the round and mimic and phineix and final attack then grab a book cuz you're in for a long wait
Going up against Culex without Peach or the Lazy Shell is pretty much suicide. Even with both, you have to be extremely strategic and constantly switching between offense and healing. It only takes one slip-up to doom your party.
Lavos has kicked my a$$ so many times, also had trouble with Mother Brain & Queen Zeal. in FFVII I had a harder time fighting Ruby Weapon, I've never been able to defeat it.
IMO, Kintaro, the sub-boss, is soooo much harder then Shao Kahn in MKII. The cross screen teleporting and life shattering grabs were always too much for me
Goro and Kintaro were definitely harder than the final bosses in MK and MK2. They simply slap you across the face or stomp on you and that takes half of your power bar.
I can't believe he put Wizpig on this list and not a boss from Jet force Gemini. People who struggle beating Wizpig don't know how to play. You got to let go of the accelerator when using a boost to go MUCH faster, it makes Wizpig sooo easy to beat
I had no idea that all these bosses were the hardest. I didn't even know what video game Ridley was from. They do seem challenging to fight. Perhaps if you have rings, it would be a little easier to fight the death egg robot. If you got hit, you could just collect the rings and keep battling it. Thanks for this list, Young Deuces!
Oh yeah and one more thing, Emerald Weapon uses the attack called Air Tide Storm. What it does it's a deadly attack that does a lot of damage depending on how many materia you equipped. Example being if you have 7 equipped then it will do 7777 damage, if you say equip more than 10 then it will deal max damage thus killing your entire party. So be mindful of what materia you need to beat this emerald demon.
Ruby Weapon is way more difficult then Emerald Weapon. You can't even damage it unless it buries it's claws in the ground. It also sucks up at least 2 of your team members.
I remember beating culex, I was so excited and happy, and as I was running out the room to go and save my game, my mom hit the power cord with the vacuum and shut the system off, I was devastated
I would say the Culix fight is easy so long as you have the lazy shell armor. Slap that on Peach and she is basically invulnerable to elemental attacks, and no matter how much damage the crystals are pumping out, the fight is easy when you can just rez and heal your whole team with Peach. Great fight, though, and great list!
The bosses that DEFINITELY earned their spots on this list are the Death Egg Robot and Culex, with the latter being EVEN harder in the remake of Super Mario RPG when you go for the rematch.
I honestly thought the Death Egg Robot from Sonic 2 was dead easy. The Doomsday Zone final, final boss from Sonic 3 and Knuckles would have been a better shout in my opinion (only if we're talking Sonic games). Akuma wasn't too bad, it was if you ever faced Super Akuma with the double air fireballs that made life hell. Emerald Weapon from FF7 was probably my biggest challenge, but Ridley used to get on my tits in a proper annoying way. I've never played Super Mario RPG so can't comment on that!
Giygas from Earthbound. The Sigma fights from Megaman X (1 or 3... 2 was super easy). Contra III on hard mode. Nick Bruiser from Super Punchout - until you learn his patterns.
Giygas was truly an interesting approach to a multi-tier challenge. It starts before the boss itself, having to go so long in an area against so many elite Starmen, and you cannot exit the area to resupply, there's even a save spot, the area is literally designed to have the capacity to semi-softlock you if you're not careful. And then the boss itself, isn't actually very hard but you need enough PP left for PSI Shield and you need to remember to re-apply it before it runs out or you put up a high risk of crashing and burning. But before you know the patterns as it were, you might just face all the brunt the first time, and basically be back to square one. There's other ways to cheese through Giygas but you're not necessarily experimenting a lot at this phase in the game, and if you are it might be slow work. And then the final part, is arguably the easiest, but you have to know it. I won't spoil what that is here, but yeah, if you can't figure that one out from the hints Pokey dropped you're stuck in a bit of a nightmare.
Here's an honorable mention: Eyedol - Killer Instinct (1994). While Gargos is a difficult boss in Killer Instinct 2/Gold. Nothing compares to Eyedol from the first game with his rapid combos and heavy damage being able to clean your health bar with ease if you are unable to combo break his attacks. Also, don't even think about trying to run away as Eyedol can quickly run across the stage and catch you immediately or fire a projectile from his club. Plus, the 1st KI (unlike its sequel and reboot) features charge based moves similar to Capcom fighting games, which makes it more tough to fight him. Better be really good at the game, or else Eyedol will clobber you to bits. 👁👁
The final boss of E.V.O. Search for Eden for SNES. Dude has like a billion HP and 20 phases, takes up the whole vertical playable area with a healthy hurtbox all around, throws projectiles and flings his arm and stuff in a game where your character is never exactly dextrous. Literally the tried-and-true method to win is to cheat the game by saving up way more 'upgrade points' than you ever need because changing an upgrade resets your HP, so you get infinite HP. Now that is a hard boss.
For me, Ultimecia from FF VIII. You don’t start with the party you had, if you don’t revive your teammates, they got lost forever, and she can one hit you GF’s.
Do your research better next time Watchmojo, saying nothing preceded the Death Egg Robot fight in Sonic 2 is completely wrong, you had to fight Metal Sonic beforehand in the same level.
I played so many games in the 90s, but I beat very few of the 8 bit and 16 bit era. I beat Streets of Rage 2 with my brother. I beat Games, but usually with cheat codes lol. Back then you had no saves, no memory cards. I started beating games on the PS1/N64. But video games taught you determination and to be resilient. And also it helped develop problem solving and trouble shooting. But like everything I'm society gaming has been dumbed down. Now you just shoot everything to progress.
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Honorable mention:
The General (Kaiser Knuckle)
Seriously. That guy is unstoppable.
This video uploaded 35 mins ago, and this comment is 20hr ago? How?
@@xenram4637 you should know by now about scheduled videos and how comments be made before the vid goes live
Dark Demon (Demon's Crest).
PLS fire this dude he is the worst of all.
The 90's were a great era for games
80 - 90s was a time
Yeah very good decade. Also internet was new so not many people have, also your got your guides from magazines and also help from friends.
Don't forget anime.
I’m very glad I was born mid 90’s. It would have sucked so much i growing up all I had is 80’s or 90’s games. Even 2000’s games suck until late 2000’s except for kids games
Not so much for most early 3D games; the PS2 library aged way better FACT.
What a time to be alive in the 90's gaming world
Wiz Pig drove me nuts! I don’t remember how many times lost to him before I finally beat him!
Same here
The technological difference between 1990 and 1999 was fucking insane.
At the time as kid, I always loved cut scene graphics in Final fantasy's on ps1.
@@sidejacked9447 I remember playing FFX for the first time and thinking I was playing a movie.
Kaiser Sigma from Mega Man X3 to me is one of the hardest bosses I faced as a kid and overall in my life. Dude is so ridiculous with such a small hit box and it's even harder if you don't have the Golden Chip.
Yeah Im shocked he didn’t even make the list.
that guy is a real bastard
As a kid, I thought Gruntilda to be ridiculously hard for a kids game.
agree
Yeah. I was 15 when I beat her and it was so difficult
It's still hard as an adult🥹
The fight in banjo Tooie I think is even harder
Agree, harder than many on this list
Spikey Tiger from Secret of Mana? A lightning-fast boss fought in a cramped space who can spin dash then leap up onto high ledges to bombard you with fire magic, located at the end of a fairly tough early-game dungeon RIGHT before you get some magic of your own. Undine would have made him so much easier.
Well said that boss was miserable to fight.
I gave up on that game because of that boss.
Yep it’s the hardest boss in the game and so early on! Proper scenes when I beat him though.
I was a 90s gamer. What I liked the most (then vs now) was that game length seemed to be 5-30 hours. This meant your avg gamer could complete, master and replay easily…. which imo made devs focus on gameplay first. 30 hrs of nonsensical side quests was never anything anyone wanted. Modern gaming is great too… just not as great, lol.
As a kid, I didn't know about letting off of the A button to help your boost out so Whiz Pig was very hard for me..I relied on him kicking me forward to beat him.
WizPig was the toughest one. I didn't even know you had to race him twice😂
TBF, it took an infant WWW for me to find out how to go to Future Funland. Even then, it took me years to "git gud" with the races and the BS Silver Coin Challenges. Still, a major clue for me that there was more was on completion of the T.T. Amulet.
Oh god those Silver Coin challenges, no no
It took me years to defeat him. I didn't know about the A button trick before the zippers.
For the EXP you had the first time facing Magus in Chronno made him very difficult.
While Emerald weapon was difficult, Ruby weapon did it for me. It would turn a fight into a one on one fight by pulling one of your party members underground in the sand. And then sometimes you have to deal with the tentacles sometimes as well. Ugh
Came to say this too ruby was a lot harder then emerald imo
facts
Yup I defeated Emerald went back just to make sure it wasn't a fluke killed it a 2nd time then just could never kill Ruby even after looking at kill guides.
You're not supposed to win the first match with Ridley just survive and by the time you rematch Ridley you have almost all the suit power ups, health tanks, super missiles, power bombs so it is almost a disappointingly easy battle. I would say not knowing the grapple beam cheese that Draygon was the most difficult boss as a kid in the 90s. Phantoon took a few attempts too.
Unless you're being baller with sequence breaks, and are facing him _early_ in a playthrough.
Honorable mention: Street Fighter Alpha 3. M. Bison. I remember spending HOURS at my local arcade determined that I wasn't going to leave until I beat him...and by the time I finally did, my pocket money was finished, it was past closing time for the arcade, and it was NIGHT-TIME.
Best Era For Video Games Wish I'd Gotten a Playstation In '95 I love Playstation
Shao Khan from MK 2 had to be where Trolling started.
Out of all of them, only Ridley never gave me any trouble. Some more honorable mentions: Zeromus (Final Fantasy IV Hard Type), Rugal (King of Fighters '94 and '95), Gill (Street Fighter III), General (Kaiser Knuckle), Kaiser Sigma (Mega Man X3)
Saisyu and before Omega Rugal was hard enough alone. Even first Rugal had to be careful, and then he takes coat off and you can get sliced in seconds
Those who took the time to find and fight the emerald weapon knows true pain in gaming
The very first time I submerged my submarine in the game I landed on it! Lol (ps, I DIDN'T win!!!)
You can Omnilash spam and kill it in under 2mins
@@Lunakitz 😂😂😂😂 yoooo I was just in the water swimming peacefully and here he come mad as hell
@@jacara1981 nah bro you baiting
@battlerapminis1799 nope can be done.
Don't equipt final attack or counter attack.
Put mime on Cloud. And regen on someone else. Don't forget the underwater materia.
Start battle with full limit bar on Cloud.
When the battle starts cast regen on Cloud.
Cloud then uses Omnilash.
Don't do ANYTHING on the other 2, just hit Tringle to skip selection, once you get Cloud again use mime, he will do Omnilash again.
Repeat.
Also a great way to level the limit burst on one's that you have to use X number of times to get the next one.
Megaman is a hard series. At least the NES ones I'm not great at action platformers but I love MM and Castlevania.
Megaman still gives me nightmares.
The 3D Culex from the remake of Super Mario RPG is even harder than his 2D counterpart.
I’m looking forward to finding him!
Can't wait to get to that fight. I just started fighting the bosses again.
The final, "true" boss from Demon's Crest definitely needs to be on here. When you need every power-up in the game to even stand a chance - and then, a slim one - you know it's tough.
Dark Demon. Phalanx's final form is also a contender, being very tough to hit.
yeah, I beat this thing, but it took loading up on health every time and more tries than I care to admit
What about Shao Khan from MK3?? He was way harder than MK2s
Not even close mk2 is one of the hardest fighting games. It literally cheats
@@zachariahsmith9130 what? Even with it on very easy he still manages to kill you the very first time you reach him
@HotRod996 im not saying hes easy. Apologies if it came that way. I simply meant MK2 Kahn is objectively harder. Its got a lot to do with the fact that MK2 overall breaks its own rules in favor of cpu cheating.
when i fought Lavos in Chrono Trigger i used Magus, Crono and Frog
You often hear that "You need everything you have to beat this villain" but it is very often not the case. Wily Capsule 7 is probably the only boss where you LITERALLY need everything you have. For each of the 3 or 4 times I finished the game through I've needed all 4 filled subtanks just to beat him. Also Wizpig can suck a big one
Wizpig still gives Me nightmares because he’s too hard to beat.
Yeah, I didn't even know you had to beat him a second time, as if the first time was not hard enough.
@@dreamguardian8320 Actually, the second time is _easier._ At least then you have balloons on the course for boosts and missiles. The first time? *NONE.* It's _pure_ driving skill.
@@Xunkun Not just pure driving skill, but using the Zippers correctly every time.
Let go of the accelerator when you use a boost! You will go MUCH faster! Taj tells you this before that point in the game and it makes beating Wizpig, and the whole game, a breeze
So many memories screaming at the TV racing WizPig as a kid. Good times 😅
Great list Watchmojo, thank you for nostalgia
Where’s nineball seraph from armored core master of arena It should be on the list because this is an early example of from software bosses that we see today.
Great era for games. My favorite narrator, I can listen to his list all day 😂😂😂
Death egg robot: get behind him! You can jump over his jet pack at least 3 or 4 times before he jumps. Then put his targeting at the 4th pillar from the right, zip to the edge, and hit him as he lands. You can finish him just as the music finishes once thru.
My strategy was to spin jump towards hias he moved towards me that seemed to work very quickly with at least 3hits. But memory has faded for that thing. I know you unlocked debug and could use a gold super sonic to finish the game time and again
That diddy kong race was very difficult as a kid
how is the spider from Zombies Ate My Neighbors not on here.. you literary need 4-5 beast potions and 10 holy crosses to beat the thing 😵💫
30 years and I still haven't beaten that spider. CURSE YOU DR. TONGUE!!!
@@superdave3000 it took me over 50 tries. gotta collect all the red potions, health, and chest crosses from like 10 levels back and save them for the end
That really was a hard boss fight!!
how is Mike Tyson not on this list?
Mike Tyson’s Punchout released in 1987, still difficult final boss
@@arkhaminmate2263 Oh.
Emerald weapon is easy as long as you have specific materia you need to use knights of the round and mimic and phineix and final attack then grab a book cuz you're in for a long wait
Going up against Culex without Peach or the Lazy Shell is pretty much suicide. Even with both, you have to be extremely strategic and constantly switching between offense and healing. It only takes one slip-up to doom your party.
I feel like he's not too bad nowadays, but *other* version of him in the Switch remake sure is something.
I've never done it without Peach AND the Lazy Shell. It's one-hit KO's pretty much the whole time.
Lavos has kicked my a$$ so many times, also had trouble with Mother Brain & Queen Zeal.
in FFVII I had a harder time fighting Ruby Weapon, I've never been able to defeat it.
IMO, Kintaro, the sub-boss, is soooo much harder then Shao Kahn in MKII. The cross screen teleporting and life shattering grabs were always too much for me
That was the centaur guy, right? I remember just spamming jump kicks on him fairly easy.
@@Xunkun The tiger centaur guy
🎮These bosses sure gave us a tough time, loved the nostalgia!👾
The kids just don't know how easy they have it nowadays. Endless lives?! Not in a '90s game!
Goro and Kintaro were definitely harder than the final bosses in MK and MK2. They simply slap you across the face or stomp on you and that takes half of your power bar.
Totally agree. Motaro was tougher than Shao Khan in MK3 also
Facts....I hated kintaro with a passion..then they decided to throw motaro at us
I had a few characters I could take Kintaro down with on a regular basis. Motaro was just a pain with anyone I used.
For me, Ripto from Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage was the hardest video game boss in the 90's.
The bosses from Jet Force Gemini should’ve gotten an honorable mention.
Still can't beat those Praying Mantises.
I can't believe he put Wizpig on this list and not a boss from Jet force Gemini. People who struggle beating Wizpig don't know how to play. You got to let go of the accelerator when using a boost to go MUCH faster, it makes Wizpig sooo easy to beat
#1 and # 4 are ones I've beaten.
I had no idea that all these bosses were the hardest. I didn't even know what video game Ridley was from. They do seem challenging to fight. Perhaps if you have rings, it would be a little easier to fight the death egg robot. If you got hit, you could just collect the rings and keep battling it. Thanks for this list, Young Deuces!
Oh yeah and one more thing, Emerald Weapon uses the attack called Air Tide Storm. What it does it's a deadly attack that does a lot of damage depending on how many materia you equipped. Example being if you have 7 equipped then it will do 7777 damage, if you say equip more than 10 then it will deal max damage thus killing your entire party. So be mindful of what materia you need to beat this emerald demon.
Did anyone else struggle with Dracula from Super Castlevania IV.
Ruby Weapon is way more difficult then Emerald Weapon. You can't even damage it unless it buries it's claws in the ground. It also sucks up at least 2 of your team members.
How is Ruby Weapon not in this list?
I was alive then but i couldn't work to buy things... At least I can hear about them now
Please do Top 10 Anime adaptations of video games
🤔 I wonder what it was like For The players defeating Akuma for the very first time
Back in the 90s even levels felt like bosses lol
Looking at you, Battletoads.
@superdave3000 Turbo Tunnel, I presume?
I remember beating culex, I was so excited and happy, and as I was running out the room to go and save my game, my mom hit the power cord with the vacuum and shut the system off, I was devastated
Culex - Super Mario RPG unless you manage to get The Lazy Shell or (Nearly impossible to get) Super Suit you're NOT beating this Super Boss
I remember I and my little brother almost rage quit because of bosses we play and encounter
I would say the Culix fight is easy so long as you have the lazy shell armor. Slap that on Peach and she is basically invulnerable to elemental attacks, and no matter how much damage the crystals are pumping out, the fight is easy when you can just rez and heal your whole team with Peach. Great fight, though, and great list!
It's easy without it too. It's just a tedious fight
I am impressed as shit that whoever beat Culex for this video did it without using peach.
The bosses that DEFINITELY earned their spots on this list are the Death Egg Robot and Culex, with the latter being EVEN harder in the remake of Super Mario RPG when you go for the rematch.
I actually found Booster 23 more of a challenge.
I honestly thought the Death Egg Robot from Sonic 2 was dead easy. The Doomsday Zone final, final boss from Sonic 3 and Knuckles would have been a better shout in my opinion (only if we're talking Sonic games).
Akuma wasn't too bad, it was if you ever faced Super Akuma with the double air fireballs that made life hell. Emerald Weapon from FF7 was probably my biggest challenge, but Ridley used to get on my tits in a proper annoying way. I've never played Super Mario RPG so can't comment on that!
The Culex rematch is EVIL! The dude pulls off a Cackletta and forces you to start the fight with 1 HP lol
@@zeospark9715 eh, easy fix: Croaka Cola and Geno
Giygas from Earthbound.
The Sigma fights from Megaman X (1 or 3... 2 was super easy).
Contra III on hard mode.
Nick Bruiser from Super Punchout - until you learn his patterns.
Giygas was truly an interesting approach to a multi-tier challenge. It starts before the boss itself, having to go so long in an area against so many elite Starmen, and you cannot exit the area to resupply, there's even a save spot, the area is literally designed to have the capacity to semi-softlock you if you're not careful.
And then the boss itself, isn't actually very hard but you need enough PP left for PSI Shield and you need to remember to re-apply it before it runs out or you put up a high risk of crashing and burning. But before you know the patterns as it were, you might just face all the brunt the first time, and basically be back to square one. There's other ways to cheese through Giygas but you're not necessarily experimenting a lot at this phase in the game, and if you are it might be slow work.
And then the final part, is arguably the easiest, but you have to know it. I won't spoil what that is here, but yeah, if you can't figure that one out from the hints Pokey dropped you're stuck in a bit of a nightmare.
The Culex fight was actually the first time I heard the final fantasy victory tune lol
Peak is back.
shao kahn isnt hard, hes literally cheating and you using cheap moves to beat him is justified
MK 9 he is the worst on story mode
Here's an honorable mention: Eyedol - Killer Instinct (1994). While Gargos is a difficult boss in Killer Instinct 2/Gold. Nothing compares to Eyedol from the first game with his rapid combos and heavy damage being able to clean your health bar with ease if you are unable to combo break his attacks. Also, don't even think about trying to run away as Eyedol can quickly run across the stage and catch you immediately or fire a projectile from his club. Plus, the 1st KI (unlike its sequel and reboot) features charge based moves similar to Capcom fighting games, which makes it more tough to fight him. Better be really good at the game, or else Eyedol will clobber you to bits. 👁👁
The final boss of E.V.O. Search for Eden for SNES.
Dude has like a billion HP and 20 phases, takes up the whole vertical playable area with a healthy hurtbox all around, throws projectiles and flings his arm and stuff in a game where your character is never exactly dextrous. Literally the tried-and-true method to win is to cheat the game by saving up way more 'upgrade points' than you ever need because changing an upgrade resets your HP, so you get infinite HP. Now that is a hard boss.
Try beating Culex in remake now.
I think we need a part 2 to this. Eyedol from Killer Instinct was hard!
It is indeed really hard!
Wizpig I Never Could Beat Him No Matter The Character I Used Not Even With The Zipline Trick
Ummm … I played a lot in the 90s including some of these games . None of these bosses come even close to the difficulty of Giygas from earthbound !!
Giygas is one hell of a boss indeed
@@StedyMarconi You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas' attack.
Not even the Wily Capsule from MM7?
The original Akuma so strong that later versions were toned down, some.
For me, Ultimecia from FF VIII. You don’t start with the party you had, if you don’t revive your teammates, they got lost forever, and she can one hit you GF’s.
I remember beating Culex on the first try on the SNES
Whizpig pissed me off so much as a kid! lol
Giygas from Earthbound: AM I A JOKE TO YOU!?!
Diddy Kong racing needs hd remake :P and if sells well 2nd game ;)
Do your research better next time Watchmojo, saying nothing preceded the Death Egg Robot fight in Sonic 2 is completely wrong, you had to fight Metal Sonic beforehand in the same level.
I never fought AKuma in SF2 Turbo but I'll take your word for it
Iselia Queen from Star Ocean the Second Story
In some arcades....reaching that akuma is biggest task...that cheap ai from super or street fighter turbo is everywhere ..can beat 😢
I remember raging so much as a kid because I couldn't beat some of these bosses
The only question I have about this video is, where did you get the thumbnail?
Golden Sun 2 Endboss. That Multi headed dragon. Never beat it. Don‘t know where my Golden sun cartridges went....
Ruby weapon over emerald by far
Dragon from metroid ik for sure
I'm fairly certain I crapped my pants when I finally beat WizPig!
Nice choice for #1
I played so many games in the 90s, but I beat very few of the 8 bit and 16 bit era. I beat Streets of Rage 2 with my brother. I beat Games, but usually with cheat codes lol. Back then you had no saves, no memory cards. I started beating games on the PS1/N64. But video games taught you determination and to be resilient. And also it helped develop problem solving and trouble shooting. But like everything I'm society gaming has been dumbed down. Now you just shoot everything to progress.
I was very happy to see sonic 2 boss on there. Shit was sooooo damn annoying back then
Yeah and back then, it's not like we could watch videos of strategies to beat bosses. We had to find out the hard way of to do and what not to do.
Have beaten 10,9,8,6,2, and 1.
"Nintendo bosses are too easy"
Most of this list: Are you sure about that?
Tbh, I had a harder time with Ruby than Emerald.
Ridley is very tuff to beat in Super Metroid.
Now I know what video game he's from.
Shao Khan, back to corner spam jump kicks
Two Words....Catcus Jack. The very name itself scares me to this day. He was annoying to beat in Wrestlemania 2000😫😫
Guess we'll see Emerald Weapon sometime in the remake.
Shao khan is overpowered.
Mizar from Jet force Gemini. Actually, you could say Rare were masters of ridiculously hard bosses.
Transformers & Godzilla top 10 game pls
3:12 Thanks Watchmojo for the Nostalgia...I can't count how many times I cast Knights of the Round on Emerald Weapon to beat him.
This may be a deep cut, but I was never able to unlock Lizard Nightmare from Ridge Racer 64.