zombie84 said:

Also, dammit why did Lucasarts make the Super Star Wars games so difficult? They are some of the best games ever made, but I would call anyone who said they beat them without using passwords a dirty liar. I had to cheat using save states on emulators to finally beat Super Empire Strikes Back. On the actual consoles it's a big deal when you get to the third levels.

Me and my buddies beat Super Star Wars and Super Return of the Jedi. We used the password saves thing to start back where left off the time before. For some reason none of our little group of friends got Super Empire Strikes Back until a lot later, and I guess we were over it by then and onto bigger and better things and didn't spend much time on it. I do remember we made it to Vader in Cloud City though... I wonder if that is the very end of the game? Now that I think about it, it probably is, I don't recall us ever beating him though.

Something I find amusing. I don't ever remember us making a huge deal about those games being ridiculously hard back when they were new. We just played them and loved the hell out of them, and when we got frustrated we'd pass the controller. We'd spend hours and hours on them and couldn't put them down. Now when I pick one up and play it, within five minutes I've died a few dozen times and am bored with it.