The North Carolina Gradius Death Challenge

As fun as pouring hydrogen cyanide down your throat, without all that diarrhea baggage.


Suggestions so far:

- 3D WORLD RUNNER:
No Death

- ABADOX:
No Gun Upgrades

- THE ADVENTURES OF BAYOU BILLY:
Fists Only

- BATMAN:
No Death

- BATTLETOADS:
2 Player

- CASTLEVANIA:
No Whip Upgrades/No Items

- CHIP AND DALE:
2 Player

- CONTRA:
No Spread/No Code
No Death/No Power-Ups
Lazer Only

- CRASH 'N' THE BOYS:
Acquire All Golds

- CRYSTALIS:
No Orb Bracelets/No Healing Magic

- DONKEY KONG:
Can't Jump Barrels

- DOUBLE DRAGON:
Fists Only

- DRAGON'S LAIR:
Complete Game

- EARTHBOUND ZERO:
No Deaths/Bat Only

- FAXANADU:
No Weapons/Armor

- FINAL FANTASY:
No Class Upgrade

- FRIDAY THE 13TH:
George Only

- GHOSTS 'N' GOBLINS:
Pacifist

- GOLD MEDAL CHALLENGE '92:
Complete Every Event

- GRADIUS:
No Power-Ups/No Warps

- GUN NAC:
Basic Weapon Only

- GUNSMOKE:
Pacifist

- JACKAL:
No POW's/No Stars

- KID ICARUS:
Pacifist

- KIRBY'S ADVENTURE:
No Power-Ups/No Health Upgrades

- KUNG FU:
Jump Kicks Only

- LIFE FORCE:
2 Player/No-Code

- LITTLE SAMSON:
KO Only

- MEGAMAN 1-6:
Pacifist

- MEGAMAN 2-6
Arm Cannon Only

- MENDEL'S PALACE:
No Continues

- MILON'S SECRET CASTLE:
No Honeycombs

- NINJA GAIDEN:
Only Subweapons
No Subweapons

- NINJA GAIDEN 1-3
Pacifist/No Power-Ups

- RIVER CITY RANSOM:
No Power-Ups

- ROCK 'N' CATS:
No Special Items

- SILVER SURFER:
No Disc(I don't know what this means)
No Death

- SMASH T.V.:
2 Player

- SUPER MARIO BROS.:
No Power-Ups/No Warps
Speed-Walk

- SUPER MARIO BROS. 3:
Frog Suit Only

- TMNT:
Raphael Only

- VEGAS DREAM:
Complete Game

- ZELDA 2:
Pacifist
No Leveling Up/Only Required Spells

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• NES
• Nintendo
• Entertainment
• System
• Gradius
• Cheats
• Tips
• Walkthroughs
• Speedrun
• Archfiend
• Jersey
• Death
• Sauce

[minigini613]

and the winner is...........

[KingdomCarts]

sorry - out of town. just got back.

[minigini613]

Have you attempted any yet?

[KingdomCarts]

Several. Even finished a couple.

[MegamanNG]

Okay... I got me a challenge that is so crazy, so absurd but I think you may have what it takes. I always wonder about Ninja Gaiden and how difficult it is but I have a challenge that is even MORE difficult. Ninja Gaiden I... all six acts, sword only and no powerups. I still have the Contra 3Life-NoSpreader challenge which I've tried and so far I made it up to Level 3 and died there. I decided to up the ante and make it a 3Life-NoPowerup challenge. I wonder if its enough to make ya twitch huh?

[KingdomCarts]

3 life, no powerup, huh? Cool.

[NarutosDemonForm]

I just thought of another one.

World Games - Beat every World Record

[NarutosDemonForm]

Tetris - Beat Level 19-5 on Mode B

Dr. Mario - Beat HI Level 20 without any Chain moves (One at a time)

Dick Tracy - Beat the Game without continues

Terminator 2 - Pacifist Mode without shooting ANYTHING (only when you need to)

Time Lord - Beat the game

Final Fantasy 3 - Beat the game with 3 Onions Knights (last one can be used to swtich classes)

Star Wars - After obtaining the lightsaber, beat the game, not only using ONLY Luke Skywalker and the Lightsaber, but also 100% the game

[SuperSaiyaman3]

play and beat super contra in 15 minutes-no cheats

[Teraforce88]

The "KONAMI ONE, GRADIUS ONE" Screen serves 2 purposes:

1. It indicates that this is Konami's first game ever created on the NES, and that game is Gradius One.

2. It serves a bugchecker: If the checksum doesn't match up, one of the "ONE"s will change to a "TEN". So you might end up with "KONAMI TEN, GRADIUS ONE" or "KONAMI ONE, GRADIUS TEN", or "KONAMI TEN, GRADIUS TEN". I've verified this using a ROM corrupter.

[chaosmaster07]

Wow, I can't believe you have so many videos I missed.

[somahiru]

Wow, vic viper looked in hyper state, and the challenges some guys put ti you are tough

good luck with them ^^

[jman46241]

Haha nevermind. Watched your vids in reverse order. But maybe you could try that Karate Kid challenge in the future...

[jman46241]

How about Karate Kid - No death?

[Superfreyman93]

zelda no sword with only 3 hearts