10 Video Games You Have To Punish Yourself To Play

Ghosts N' Goblins is the epitome of old-school difficult games. Alongside Battletoads, it ruled many of our lives as a borderline impossible game - that, for kids playing it, was likely one of the few games they had, and thus the one they would continuously try to beat.

And while the "two-hits-to-die" mechanic initially looks like same as, say, Mario, it's made significantly less forgiving due to the enemies you face. Monsters seem to pop up everywhere - out of the ceiling, out of the floor, and out of your nightmares.

The flying monsters seem to consistently have incredibly unpredictable movement patterns, as well, meaning that your chances of dodging them requires either godly reflexes or for you have played the game enough you just know when to move instinctively.

Similarly, if you don't fire your weapon off like it's a semi-automatic whenever you face the final boss Asteroth, he'll quickly murder you in cold blood - making your perilous efforts all for nothing.

Still, there are few games where you can defeat great evil and save a princess while in your underwear, so it does have that going for it.