Your most recent retro accomplishment?

I recently beat Viewtiful Joe on Ultra V Rated, so I finally unlocked Captain Blue. I've had the game for years but only just did this last year. Seriously amazing and hard game. I wish they'd revive the series, but Capcom hates their fans, plus there's that legal snafu with Clover and all that. Still, I'm happy I have all the characters now... I might try getting unlimited VFX powers this summer by earning Rainbow Vs on everything.

What's your most recent retro accomplishment you feel great about?

I beat Ninja Gaiden black on the hardest difficulty 6 years ago. And I am working on all achievements for Ninja Gaiden 2 :3, I'm pretty proud of those

I beat Jurassic Park on my Sega Game Gear in 30 minutes without dying once. I did that last week at the start of my Jurassic Park game-a-thon.

@Telekill: wow nice!!

Nothing recent or that special. Last year, I had a Mega Man marathon where I went through Mega Man 1-10, X1-X5, Zero, and ZX, with the highlights being beating Omega in Mega Man ZX without getting hit, and then going through Mega Man X without dying. The only other things I can think of is getting every achievement in NiGHTS into Dreams, and owning Galamoth from SOTN while being under leveled. It was the first time I ever fought him, but his pattern was really easy to expose, so maybe he's just more hype than anything else.

I still need to play that game.

SOTN? I'd definitely recommend downloading it on XBLA or PSN if you ever have the time, because if you love games like Super Metroid, SOTN is on that level of fun.

Beaten Batman NES recently...dat Joker don't mess around.

Resident Evil Code Veronica on Dreamcast - finally killed the giant silver mutant thingy in the back of the cargo plane after having been trying on and off for about 10 years. Finally get to load CD 2 into the console only to be mightily disappointed by the rest of the game after so much anticipation.

Yesterday i finished Akumajou Densetsu on the Famicom. There was so much lost in translation on the american version (Castlevania 3). The audio on the japanese cart is awesome.

@mitu123: That is hard. I don't think I would be able to do that now.

I beat Arc the Lad 2 for PS1. Oh man i enjoyed hunting monsters and taking jobs from NPC on that game.

heart of darkness for ps1 .

not a hard game but its the only retro game i played this month/playing ps2 games mostly now/

Why not?=O

@mitu123: Just getting older...less patience...higher blood pressure. Mostly the last of patience though :(

Beating and capturing all and I mean all the Apes (errr Monkeys) in Ape Escape on PS1 and that was 6 months ago.

A very minor one since I already finished the original Doom a fair number of times, I think I never cleared it with all of the secret levels per episode. I believe I always missed Warrens (Ep3's secret level.)

decided to play through every dragons lair game, started with dragons lair 2, one of my all time favorite games, then finished the original dragons lair. After that I played dragons lair 3d on gamecube, which I never played before and it was surprisingly good. Just finished dragons lair on snes and at some point in the next week or so I will probably go back and replay the dreadful nes version just for the lulz.

Other than that I also played through festers quest last night with a friend who had never played the game in his life.

Finally stuck to Fzero GX and beat story mode. that felt good. Im also about to beat final boss of mega man x and move onto x2.

I recently beat "The Death and Return of Superman" Nes version without a continue. Very happy considering I am a disabled combat Marine that has crossed the 40's barrier and have a traumatic brain injury.

I managed to beat Kintaro recently in Mortal Kombat II without using continues or even losing any rounds.

Beaten Ninja Gaiden 1 NES without dying once.

I beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES. The weird Ultra version. The ending wasn't as cool as I thought it would be.

Well, I became Arch-Mage in Morrowind.

I unlocked all of the cheats on Goldeneye.

Couple of friends and myself just recently beat Rygar.

Beating Prince of Persia The Sands of Time. Great game wish Ubisoft would reboot the series.

grandia, it's a child's game, i wouldn't recommend it if you value intricate story and cool battle tactics.

Completed Batman(NES) for the first time a few weeks ago.

Completed Mega Man on the NES for only the 2nd time. I had forgotten how brutally difficult that game can be.

My most recent Retro gaming achievement is finally finding a copy of Nightmare Busters. It was a finished but unreleased Super Nintendo game. I found this in a pawn Shop. This game was sold out on-line. But by fluke I found one in the pawn shop. This is an old game that the ROM has been dumped on the internet, and can be played via emulation. I would rather have a physical copy. I was disheartened that it was sold out on the website. So I was happy to find one in the pawnshop for sale. $60.00 was worth snapping up this Retro (sort of) Since this was released for the SNES in 2012.

So a new, but not new game for the Super NES. Retro 16 bit gaming at it's best, Since the Super Nintendo is my favorite console of all time. This is a must buy.

Beat Grim Fandango! (remastered, but I think it counts since it's the same game). Really great experience, although I do have my critiques - I think the praise for the game is not unfounded but tends to go too far

I beat Mushihimesama on Ultra Mode.

I finally beat Tomb Raider II (PC).

I say "finally" because the last time I played this game I was a kid (must have been around 11). Got it free with a Windows 98 family computer. Back then half the time a auto-installer wouldn't pop-up, so you had to enter the .exe directory into the run window and go from there. Man, installing games has gotten easier.

Back then I couldn't get my head around how to figure out the puzzles (I was looking for overt clues, totally unaware that the freeform exploration involved in figuring out the puzzles IS the game). As a result I could never get past the third stage without a guide (and no further than that even with one). I must have been a stupid kid cos I completed the game with relatively little trouble (okay, I died a shit tonne cos I was getting used to the controls and other design quirks. In fact 10 of my 25 hour game time was dying/retrying).

The puzzles weren't hard and outside of a couple of levels TRII is actually linear, with the appearance of freeform exploration: that is, you move through a funnel of, admittedly large, but ultimately self-contained, rooms. And enemies are easy once you realise that that rolling behind them guarantees you free shots cos they have no quickturn (you end up gunning them down whilst they slowly pivot).

I'm now alternating between TR1 and TRIII, both of which, for some reason, have more responsive controls than TRII.

I never liked the old TR series (love the Crystal Dyanamics trilogy though) but now I've gotten used to all the control quirks of these games I have a huge number of new games open to me (when you factor in expansions and all the fan-made levels). It's almost like falling in love with a new genre, expanding my horizons.