10 Video Game Bosses Only Hardcore Players Got To Fight

10. Death Bringer - Golden Axe (Sega Genesis/Mega Drive)

Golden Axe is an old school, side scrolling beat 'em up that was released by Sega in 1989 as an arcade game and then released for home consoles, including the Master System and Genesis/Mega Drive.

That means that Golden Axe has arcade game difficulty.

Made in a time when games were designed to be tough so that the makers could make as much money as possible from it, the enemies move faster than the player characters and have a tendency to try to swarm you. Ideally, this is played in co-op to counter this but, even so, getting to the end of the game isn't necessarily an easy feat. Doing so, however, sees you fight the final boss, Death Adder, and reclaim the Golden Axe for which you have strived!

Or at least some versions of the game do.

The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive version of the game had another boss after this - Death Bringer, Death Adder's master. He's essentially a palette-swapped version of Death Adder, but has two skeletons accompanying him, who each have twice as much health as he does.

So in order to meet him, you not only have to complete the original arcade version of the game, which is a challenge in itself, but you also have to have it for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive (not counting re-releases for future consoles) to actually ever see Death Bringer in action.