I guess it’d be as bad or worse than beating Battletoads, or (this is an example I’ve always thought of) being the people who somehow made it all the way through Zelda II in 1988, before there were even maps in Nintendo Power. Seriously, those caves and that final dungeon are just beastly.

I don’t think I used a guide on the caves.

The part that always sticks in my mind is the red jar you have to find near that lost kid Link famously holds up above his head.

Rygar is a game that I only played in the last couple of years and really liked, but am glad I played on emulator. It’s not too hard, it just needed a save feature because it’s long. You’d have to leave your NES on all weekend to beat it.