10 Video Games Nobody Has Beaten (Because It's Impossible)

[@LateToTheBeardParty]

When I started watching this there was one game that came to mind, Road Rash 2 for the Mega Drive - while you can beat Stage 5 and become the champion, it then put you in a weird game state where the next race will be against all the cops and no matter how the race ends the game crashes when it tries to run the race-end cutscene. What's worse is if you did note down the code for that end-game state and try to enter it to get back, the game will report it as an invalid code.

[@TheZoenGaming]

Yeah, that ruined Road Rash for me. I refused to play the series ever again because of that.

[@Sunprism]

Old games are like life. You never win, everything just gets faster and more difficult until it kills you

[@Hiroprotagonist253]

Facts

[@AntoekneeDE]

Grim but precise

[@GenericRae]

Are you ok? ❤️

[@ThePman007]

Tetris

[@mindlessdude2216]

Ironically, thats why I love COD Zombies, The levels get more and more difficult until the entire party falls and the game ends. You never win, you just do a little better each time

[@jennyf-eg5gl]

I actually got to 28 level on dr. Mario. I remember being so confused. When I show my dad, he said that he went on break. 😂

[@Ramsey276one]

O M G XD

[@eddavitt6359]

This one must have taken a lot of research! Incredible what we used to put up with in gaming standards, and how much we take modern standards for granted

[@jamesianhutchison1165]

I had RoboCop on the Spectrum and was always a little jealous of the C64's colour palette. The "Spectrum", ironically was monochromatic, but at least you could complete the game. 😅

[@ryanbauer3680]

You forgot the best/worst part of Action 52. In it there is a game called Ooze where they placed a pit that was literally impossible to jump over, essentially making the game unbeatable. Now this doesn't sound so bad...except for the fact they also advertised a $104K prize for anyone who could prove they were the first to beat the game.

[@neodav00001]

The US version of Ar Tonelico 2 has a bug similar to the Tales of Eternia one, but even worse: It's the second-to-last boss of the game. There's an attack that, when the boss uses it, will lock up the game. Okay, annoyingly luck-based, but manageable as long as it doesn't use that attack, right? Well, it's programmed to use it on its third turn every time. Technically, the boss IS beatable if you can do it before it gets three turns, but as you'd imagine for an endgame boss, that's a very tall order. The wild part is that it's JUST the US version, not the original Japanese version or later EU versions. I guess the attack name was programmed to show up on screen and the programmers who put in the translation accidentally deleted a bracket or something.

[@mightymanatee5342]

There is an earlier problem in AR Tonelico 2. When the crafting mechanic is introduced you are tasked with making an item and you are given the materials. However one of them is a healing item and you only get one... which means if you use it to heal your characters you can't continue the game.

[@theusedsk8monkey]

THANK YOU for the SSSV entry, idk what happened to my cartridge, but I played that game to DEATH as a kid, and it was ridiculously hard, especially before the days of convenient YT vids. Been revisiting several games as a more experienced adult and end up dominating more than a few, but haven't had the op to try the Valley again. :( Here's to hoping it ends up on the Switch N64(though there are several titles i'd rather have added before that one lol)!!

[@weertangel7231]

I remember playing that old Ninja turtles game on the C64 with cheats. What a time, when games were actually difficult or near inpossible to complete.

[@CelticVictory]

I remember that low hanging ceiling in Ninja Turtles. It was impossible to jump past it and you might as well just jumped into the sewer water.

[@Sunprism]

People complain about modern games. They didn't live through the earlier years, where programmers were just artists that were good at numbers. And I'm not saying artist as in someone who makes a work of art; this is as in someone who set their socks on fire while looking for a green pencil

[@wolftickets1969]

Honorable mentions: Rastan (C64, like the DOS/Amiga TMNT, it has an impossible jump in one level), Impossible Mission (US Atari 7800, due to some of the puzzle pieces being hidden behind the unsearchable computer terminals), True Crime: New York City (Xbox, a later boss is supposed to be pushed off a hanging shipping container, but the prompt to do so never triggers due to a bug), Marble Madness(Game Boy, the final level apparently wasn't programmed in, so levels 2 through 5 loop until you run out of time)

[@glenndallas7171]

I'm pretty sure RC Pro Am on the NES was unbeatable. I remember playing until 5 AM and hitting some absurd level (80 something?) and feeling like there was no end.

[@samusx2175]

Indeed. It's one of the many old NES games with no ending. Like Tiger-Heli, Spyhunter 1, and others.

[@jamalvargas6146]

Dick Tracy On Sega Genesis Enjoyed The 1990 Movie but that game was challenging

[@dolanvskaney]

The PC version of "The Immortal" by Will Harvey has a game-crashing bug during the final battle against the dragon.

[@GustavoSilva-ny8jc]

2:44 Imagine facing this for years till you discover it was never beatable in the 1st place, i dont know how i would feel.

[@WolfyFancyLads]

Three things: 1) Love the mask pun, the slowness of putting it on made it funnier. 2) Mario Party could technically reach 30 doors if you play with Save States. Might be an idea for anyone who wants to try it. 3) To be fair, Cheetah Men's reputation suffered a fate befit of a terrible, broken game: The game is remembered by about 2% of the world. The other 98% know them from furry smut. The game studio, the game, and the characters, are now lost to the realm of shadows that is the hornyjail side of the internet. There they will stay, never to spawn another game, never to have a good reputation, always doomed to be remembered as jazz mag material. They didn't put in the effort, now they get the worst ending.

[@BlairsVaultOfStarsAndDreams]

I remember a lot of the old DOS games being really buggy at times. Commander Keen, the original Duke Nukem games, the Star Trek point and click game...All of them had either mechanics bugs that would prevent progress or had some kind of death loop going on.

[@DrCorndog1]

Huh. I played a lot of Commander Keen back in the day (played it again just a few months ago), and I don't remember anything like that.

[@aretnap3653]

I Always Had Problems Getting TheSound to Work, after Installing Mid 1990's "ComputerGames" to My PC. (IBM Aptiva) I Wanted "Carmaggeddon" to Run Correctly...So Bad, I Could Taste It! But The Full Version of That Game was "Broken". TheShareWare Ran Like Water...But When I Purchased TheFullGame, It Didn't Work at All!

[@aretnap3653]

Did "MechWarrior" Ever Work For Ya?

[@zacretzer]

I am so incredibly sorry for all of the folks who are just trying to be themselves having to deal with the absolutely vile comments on this video. Y’all should actually be ashamed of yourselves. Everyone else please know that there are millions of supportive allies out there who will never stop fighting for your rights and giving you support however we can❤️

[@Thatguy-y2q]

Great vid mate... Keep up the good work. Ignore the GIMPS 😂

[@antionewilson5069]

Amen.. as a black man I know discrimination and hate and prejudice..we stand with those who also suffer evil..ALWAYS ❤🎉😊

[@Jackie_XIII]

The same filthy nasty hateful people come out for every single one of Psy's videos. And I mean seriously, don't y'all have anything better to do? Find a way to contribute positively to the world as opposed to constantly drowning us in negativity

[@Toketree]

Disguising hate as love doesn’t fool anyone lol you’re just as intolerant as those your commenting about😂😂😂😂

[@tropicalpalmtree]

​@@antionewilson5069lmao

[@pokemorris]

Should have included 'LotR: War in the North' on that list as a bonus. There was a game halting bug where if you didn't speak to an eagle at one point then a lot further down the line you couldn't progress at all. The only remedy was to restart and make sure you do talk to the eagle. This bug was never patched as the developer was merged into Monolith Prod. and no further work was done on this game. Awesome! I wasted about 30 hours to it. 😂😭😭

[@michaelt.lancaster9776]

I couldn't finish Gran Turismo 2, because at a certain point, your entire garage disappears and you can't buy a new one, and you're stuck with the car you're driving.

[@masatotanaka999]

The original Oddworld had a bug that made it impossible to beat.

[@RahzZalinto]

When i was a kid (80s-90s) beating a game was rare lol. I didnt even know anyone who beat games on SNES or Genesis lol. I think i beat sonic 1-3 and mortal kombat. Thats probably all

[@thecunninlynguist]

really? friends and i beat plenty of NES/SNES/Genesis games

[@zengram]

Seriously? SNES games are easiest than nes and genesis

[@drgonzo123]

I think the only game I legit beat was Mega Man X3. Beating a game back in the 16 bit era wasn’t even something my little kid brain ever considered. I was born in 86 just for reference

[@thecunninlynguist]

@@drgonzo123 didn't legit beat SMW? Lttp? Super Metroid?

[@drgonzo123]

@@thecunninlynguist nope. I would rent most games like I think we all did back then and I owned very few. So I would only have them for a day or so. Also I mostly played wrestling and fighting games when I was a kid, so they weren’t really made to be beat.

[@FishOfPain]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but I skimmed through the comments and didn't see it. The first European version of Harvest Moon - Back to Nature on PS1 just goes to a black screen when you get married. While realistic, that's not supposed to happen. I got my game replaced like three times as a kid before getting the working reprint.

[@Dervraka]

Really for the first 10 years or so of gaming (think Atari 2600 era) the vast majority of games were technically unbeatable because they simply had no win condition at all, the game just went on forever until you lost or got bored and turned it off. It really wasn't until the NES era that games starting to move toward having a set win condition (finish the final stage and rescue Peach in Mario, get the triforce and defeat Gannon in Legend of Zelda, etc).

[@ItzSkettimas]

Replace "beaten" with "fully completed" and this would be a accurate list, instead of feeling like clickbait

[@someOldBaldguy]

This guy seems exhausting to try and be friends with

[@UNGGodYT]

ar tonelico 2 melody of metafalica, on the boss before the final , there is a point in its HP that cause it to change form, however, in english version that code is broken and the game freezes, making difficult to finish the game, you can do 3 things, level up to max and do so well you dont give the boss the chance to transform, use a glitch to have unlimited attack turns or insert a giant game shark code to fix the broken code and finish normally.

[@Deejay_quest]

Weeeell, technically, you're supposed to stop before the stop sign. So if the stop sign is one inch from a brick wall, you should still be okay, also it's a brick wall, it might be entirely deserved if they hit it.😂

[@maggotmusic757]

I don't know a single person who was ever able to "Catch Em All" past the first 3 generations lol

[@VictorStave]

From what I understand, the SNES version of the Dennis the Menace movie tie in had an unfinished final boss, coupled with pressure to release in stores alongside the film release date…so the devs just put an impossible platform jump just before the end, so players can never reach a boss that nobody had the time to finish making

[@phantomblack678]

Actually that was a myth. It was the Commodore Amiga port that had the unjumpable platform, and even then it apparently never actually made it into the released game, as there's at least one Amiga longplay that properly finishes the game. The unjumpable pit apparently only existed for demo purposes to secure a deal.

[@Ramsey276one]

Cruel But clever

[@aretnap3653]

'Tiger·Heli' for 8-Bit Nintendo... *NEVER ENDS!*

[@aretnap3653]

I Found That Out... TheHardWay.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

I've heard of the RoboCop one, but for the game to break after just 3 levels is beyond bad.

[@davidrothman5258]

Joust, I played to level 100 and the game just froze showing the Characters passing by on the game.

[@matthewstone5310]

The "X-Men" game on the NES can be beaten, (so I've heard) but you have to collect clues for a special code just to access the final level. WHY WOULD ANY PROGRAMMER DO THAT?! WHAT KIND-OF BULLSHIT IS THAT?! A secret final level?!

[@Thrythlind]

Kikoskia has played through Action 52 a couple of times.

[@death5talker45]

I remember Cool Spot...never had it...but did think about getting it....the 7up Cool Spot game... Sega Genesis version

[@nightwalker83]

I remember playing TMNT on Amiga I was younger. Not sure which version I had though since I am in Australia?

[@antfrancis9941]

It was a very long time ago but i swear i beat the tmnt game on the nes. I'm pretty sure it was krang in the terrordome (could be wrong) but yeah, i'm sure i beat it.

[@glenndallas7171]

NES version was beatable. DOS and Amiga versions were not.

[@kirby163]

It is impossible to get the good ending in the German copies of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream due to a whole character and level getting deleted from the game

[@dot2dotGhost]

It makes no difference to the quality, of course (which is always high), but there's something nice about a piece-to-camera. Cool t-shirt and bracelets, man.

[@TheSentinel86]

Critical depth. Show me anyone who legitimately got every faction & secret faction endings. Ill wait.

[@swordbladez]

Another fun thing about Smash TV: the Xbox 360 release has an unwinnable achievement as it was not programmed correctly 🤣

[@maxevans9906]

I quit devil may cry 4 cuz I got stuck in the castle

[@paulbray2538]

I don't know how to explain this, but I feel like Sy (sorry, don't remember how to spell it, pls correct me) is how I thought Jules looked before I finally saw him on screen 😂

[@ramensoup43]

*looks at title screen art "So you're saying there's a chance!"

[@zegagenesis778]

How did you not put the literally impossible "Impossible Mission" on here?

[@GhastlyGhostrider]

I loved Smash TV! Dont remember if I ever came to the finish though xD But LOVED the game! The music was kickass!

[@RainWalking]

Then how come there are videos on youtube of them being done to 100%?

[@Jhappell224]

Ever heard of hyperbole bro?

[@nightwalker83]

At least the Amiga version of Robo cop was able to be finished

[@16ktsgamma]

I would say Ooze is worse than Chetahmen just cause of a contest that says if you can get to a level you earn money. Notice that nobody got the money because the game stops earlier. Hell the Sega Genesis verision of the game stops earlier too.

[@Sistik123]

I could never get passed that damn sewer jump.

[@penance8717]

First one is called 😱EVOS SPACE ADVENTURE😱 I had it before 20 years😊

[@opal-blue8939]

I'd love to see a Space station silicon valley remake in my lifetime.

[@civilwildman]

I’m waiting for someone to say that they beat this or that game on this list.

[@BigFootSize]

Cool life. Keep it up.

[@BigFootSize]

@erikrousu Honestly i got stuck in it. But at the time i was like 5 so I don't think i should feel bad about that. My parents were already impressed at me understanding dos and getting into their work files floppy disks :')

[@BigFootSize]

@erikrousu I was born in 85 myself :p I don't know where i got stuck anymore, i don't remember much of the game except for that first zone. Must have been around where i got stuck and stopped playing it.

[@iamdb1990]

never heard anyone call mortar "more-tar" before lol

[@MasterMewtwo239]

Mor-Tar? Psy, you made a He-Man villain.

[@BrainAbsoluteZero]

Saving this for the next person I see complaining about patches on modern games and they remember how old games came out big free...

[@Ad-jl7si]

Im sure R-Type on the megadrive was glitched so thatbtje last level was the first all over again.

[@DarthPhillius]

Great list. I remember quite a few ZX Spectrum games being outed as unfinishable (without cheats) years later. Although to be fair 8bit systems had very strict constraints and so many of the classics of that era were coded by some kids in their bedroom. I miss those DIY days. On another note; this is a great list with enjoyable commentary. Why does anyone feel the need to comment on Psy's apperance? Feminine men, adrodginy and gender fluidity is nothing new. If you have a issue with it then that's very much a 'you' problem and maybe something you need to work on. Keep up the great work Psy 👍🏻

[@were1974]

Yay.I am in the video.😊

[@cppblank]

Just because a game can't be completed 100% doesn't mean it isn't beaten.

[@jaredmichael7659]

i was expecting Morrowind and that damn book that prevented you from being the leader of the thievs' and fighters' guilds

[@flowerboy_9]

A fellow CM PUNK fan I love it

[@ericnieves5793]

Capcom snk card battle for the ds is another good one that the first copies released are unbeatable

[@unofonseca2862]

Seams the trend of releasing broken games has always been the case. At least now they can be patched up post release...

[@joels5150]

Sadly, I never had a problem with the dam level on TMNT for NES. My issue is a jump I could never get past on the subsequent level 🤬

[@glenndallas7171]

The dam level's difficulty is WAY overrated. There are several crap jumps in the game -- one sewer one in particular -- that are much harder and more frustrating.

[@sassysarah39]

Seaworld game on the game cube I don’t know if it was a game that my aunt got me was just glitched or that things unbeatable, and for some reason it just looks like it should be laughably easy it’s not

[@JimiGosu]

And I thought Doors of Doom was tough before. 😳

[@krvgames9258]

Doctor Mario can’t be completed 100 percent because that’s not the point of Doctor Mario. Doctor Mario is an arcade game and the whole point of arcade games is not getting 100 percent but about getting a high score.

[@DeejayVillain]

You weren’t MEANT to beat old games… because they wanted you to keep playing them… And when arcades used to exist and have the new exclusives, they wanted you to keep pumping coins in… Old games were notoriously more difficult than titles today… No save game points - X number of lives… X number of continues… Get to it… and if you fail… start again 😂

[@speedymatt1236]

That’s what happens when a video game is poorly tested.

[@johnbinley2957]

Capcom card fighter's on the ds I'd also unbeatable because you can only get to about floor 25 I think it's been ages since I played it but at that point the game just freezes there where patches for it but it still didn't work

[@NotIfICU1st_]

Smash tv was brutal yet fun

[@Handsome_Black]

I see Psy with the CM Punk shirt. Lets get some Psy videos on the wrestling channel.

[@foxboy1985]

AVGN would love this video

[@Jokertron3000]

Metal Gear V 😭 good luck completing a game that's not even complete itself 😅

[@gamerpone1792]

It's not even that bad

[@Jokertron3000]

@@gamerpone1792 no, it isn't. It's actually fantastic for what it is. I just wish we'd gotten the final chapter 😭

[@c.m.6487]

I never imagined a man with a voice like that, looking like that... 😒

[@carl7667]

Returnal becomes kinda easy once you get used to controls. I 100 % the game and I'm not even that great of a gamer.

[@traviscooper2205]

Karate Champ never ended.

[@TwoFacedGentleman]

The way they say "Fat Bear Mountain" is hilarious. Then again, those words may just sound funny in *every* accent. 🤔

[@redbeardthegamer4998]

Miss you Jules

[@brianfolta1912]

JUST REPORTED VIDEO FOR REPULSIVE CONTENT/HOST

[@lazyhumanhuman1300]

Hey ive been listening to you for a few years and your voice and videos sre DOPE... is this the first video where we get to see you???

[@ThePman007]

Any commodore64 game lol

[@VioletMoonfox]

I don't care about 100%ing a game. So that first one *can* be beaten.

[@devilhell1161]

How is everyone's day today?

[@HylianFox3]

As awful as today's unfinished and bug-ridden games are, at least we can just download an update patch (if one is made) In Ye Olden Tymes if you got a shitty game you were pretty much screwed, unless you went through the hassle to get a replacement copy (assuming one was made)

[@NorwegianMartin]

lovely beautiful hair!!

[@davidharrington4828]

I beat Mario Odyssey

[@DMBLaan]

Hey Psi with all 3 credits on this one, nice!

[@dakotawahl1118]

I was enjoying forgetting what Psy looks like. Shame that there's a reminder.

[@davidkelly2776]

Tmnt that game was hard

[@maturin1919]

It's absolutely infuriating that you'd title a video 'Games No One Has Beaten' and then include, in your first entry, a game that can clearly be beaten. Make it make sense, please.

[@dylanogg347]

10:11: Your move, creeps!

[@Ronaldboyd1979]

I love your hair

[@visualglitch91]

i have that exact same choker, they are very 90/2000-ish here in brazil, love it!!

[@krispydream6907]

0:12 wtf is this

[@Odunx242]

a normal human. You stupid or sum?

[@Plumbly]

👀

[@AbyssalExistence]

Psy White, this is honestly the first time I've seen you on WC and partly my fault, I kinda stopped following up on them, but I'll say godamn Psy you look good ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥