Top 5 video games from my childhood that I....almost beat.

I think one and four were the hardest. Mike Tyson, Super Macho Man, and Mr. Sandman are three of the hardest bosses. It took a lot of practice and patience for me to beat them. And even with Tyson, I didn't beat him all the time. Ninja Gaiden was just hard, but what it made harder was the cheapness of the game. You kill enemies and they return as the screen shifts. The trick to beating the final boss in Rygar was to come to him with your discus weapon at the max, plus use the lightening attack that hits everything on the screen to damage him badly from a distance. I found him to be among the easiest bosses in the game.