NES Top 10: Worst Placed Items

1st = 7
2nd = 6
3rd = 3
4th = 8
5th = 13
6th = 2
7th = 5
8th = 10
9th = 1
10th = 11

the numbers represent the item in the voting.

1
Game: Super Mario Bros.
Level: 8 - 1
Submitted by: RockPuppetz

There is a coin box in world 8 - 1 that helps you get to another coin box but it is in a area near a flying koopa. I tried to jump over the koopa but I hit the box then the koopa killed me.



2
Game: The Legend of Zelda
Where: getting to the white sword.
Submitted by: gtoyoda



Originally posted by: qtoyoda

i dont know why, but i never liked getting the sword in zelda that is garded by the horsething atop the waterfall.



3
Game: Dragon Warrior
Submitted by: RASK1904



Originally posted by: RASK1904

I know in Dragon Warrior you have to seach a toxic mash? square for an item. Someone tells you something like 25 south 48 west. And you have to go to that exact square. Belive there is an item that takes you there. I remember tring to count that shit out though! Arrrrgh.



4
Game: Ultima Exodus
Level: Moon Gates
Submitted by: SKULLDEATH9000

Originally posted by: SKULLDEATH9000

Oh
I got this covered, the Moon Gates in Ultima Exodus. I was playing
that shit for like 4 hours building up my character real slow. So I
start exploring a bit, see this hurricane looking thing, what does any
natural gamer do, wanna touch it! I touched that bitch and teleports me
to some different part of the game and the enemies were like level 1000
and killed my entire party in one attack! I was like WTF chuck. I
got pissed off turned the system off forgetting to hold the reset button
and yeah wouldn't ya know it, bye bye game data, thanks Ultima THANKS!



5
Game: Mega Man 2
Level: Metal Man
Submitted by: Polonius


Originally posted by: Polonius

Megaman
2, Metal man stage. After the Stacked Can enemies, there's an enormous
jump off a cliff. It's tight to make it from the top of the cliff in the
first place. But there's an Energy Tank underneath you inside the cliff
- just go right, fall, go left and land on the ledge. Grab the E-tank,
and then jump to your death. Because it's literally impossible to make
that jump with Item 1 or 2. (And seriously - it's Metal Man - who
doesn't want that item first?)



6
Game: Mega Man 2
Level: Quick Man
Submitted  by: dra600n
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Originally posted by: dra600n

items in Quick Man stage when the lasers are shooting




7
Game: TMNT (1)
Level: 4
Submitted by: dra600n

Originally posted by: dra600n

pizza where the spike walls are closing in, knowing you can't ever get that pie



8
Game: Dash Galaxy and the Alien Asylum
Level: 10-1
Submitted by: bimmy-lee


Originally posted by: bimmy_lee

there is an extra life
suspended over a pit and the only way to collect the extra life is to
kill yourself by jumping in the pit. There is absolutely no way to
collect it without dying in the process.



9
Game: Rad Gravity
Submitted by: Stan



Originally posted by: Stan

Got
one. The Adventures of Rad Gravity. There's this thing you can get
that let's you warp around. You toss it and press a button and appear
in its place. It's critical in the last level to bypass some obstacles.
Thing is, they programmed it horribly. When you are approached by
this spike barrier thing, you throw it down, run, and prepare to warp
after it passes it. But the barrier makes it disappear when it hits it.
This makes you think it's gone, but really only the image is gone,
it's still in the code and you'll warp to where it was.



10
Game: The Legend of Zelda
Submitted by: Enslaved


Originally posted by: Enslaved

Legend of Zelda: The rock picker-upper....thing ring?



I remember always going for it pretty early in the game, and having
to go the long route to get to it. Having to go through all those horse
enemies by level 6, and going around Death Mountain, only to activate
at least half of those statues before I finally found it and died before
walking over to get it. Ugh!



11
Game: Castlevania 1 + 3
Level: all
Submitted  by: gutsman004

Originally posted by: gutsman004
.

Let me also add the watch item in Castlevania I and III. Some may
disagree,but it has very minimal use to me.Not only that,but the holy
water can be used to not only freeze enemies on contact,but it also
damages them as well,which the watch doesn't do. It doesn't even fit in
with the other weapons...dagger,boomerang,axe,holy water,and.....watch?!



12
Game: Megaman

Level: Dr. Wily part 4

Submitted  by: Nightram

Originally posted by: Nightram

Mega Man 1's Yashichi in Dr. Wily's fourth stage.


13
Game: Final Fantasy


Submitted  by:Leathco


Originally posted by: Leathco

Final
Fantasy - Getting the Adamant to make the Masmune sword. The chest is
rather far along in the fourth fiends dungeon, which is filled with the
hardest enemies you have faced thus far. You than are required to
backtrack out of the dungeon, than down the tower you climbed to get the
the fiends dungeon, than through the desert you trek through to get to
the tower to finally get to your airship so you can make the metal into
the sword. Oh, and after all that, you gotta go back through the
desert, up the tower, and back where you left to continue on.




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Comments

  • i dont know why, but i never liked getting the sword in zelda that is garded by the horsething atop the waterfall image sorry that it isnt specific i havent played the game for a while i think it is the silver sword?
  • I don't have a list at the ready, but the multitude of RPG items that are discovered on seemingly random map squares, the first time through the game.
  • Need to think this one over. I'd say that a definite taker is all the worthless weapons in Athena that keep popping up EVERY STINKING TIME you kill something. When you have something you need to beat a certain boss, it can make it a really bad experience.
  • Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

    I don't have a list at the ready, but the multitude of RPG items that are discovered on seemingly random map squares, the first time through the game.



    I know in Dragon Warrior you have to seach a toxic mash? square for an item. Someone tells you something like 25 south 48 west. And you have to go to that exact square. Belive there is an item that takes you there. I remember tring to count that shit out though! Arrrrgh.
  • Originally posted by: qtoyoda

    i dont know why, but i never liked getting the sword in zelda that is garded by the horsething atop the waterfall image sorry that it isnt specific i havent played the game for a while i think it is the silver sword?


    That's the Lionel at the top of that area with the water/waterfall mix, and it's the White Sword if I remember right and yeah it is kind of a bitch to get to as they hit hard.  Though sticking with Zelda the hidden shop with the blue ring could be considered a 'worst' as I don't think there was any specific hint saying, go here for the armor increasing ring' so you just had to bumble upon it I think.

    Another worst placed, not so much an item, but that lame dungeon in Zelda Phantom Hourglass, always had to go back, redo all the same crap on the clock, then do the added room to get the permission marker to boat all the way back across the map again to do the next thing just to return and wish, rinse, and aggravatingly, repeat.
  • Oh I got this covered, the Moon Gates in Ultima Exodus. I was playing that shit for like 4 hours building up my character real slow. So I start exploring a bit, see this hurricane looking thing, what does any natural gamer do, wanna touch it! I touched that bitch and teleports me to some different part of the game and the enemies were like level 1000 and killed my entire party in one attack! I was like WTF chuck. I got pissed off turned the system off forgetting to hold the reset button and yeah wouldn't ya know it, bye bye game data, thanks Ultima THANKS!
  • Got to love Lord British's odd ball game mechanics.
  • thanks tanooki image that what i mean, and true with that stupid secret shop. i ussually end up just taking the hit and running
  • Megaman 2, Metal man stage. After the Stacked Can enemies, there's an enormous jump off a cliff. It's tight to make it from the top of the cliff in the first place. But there's an Energy Tank underneath you inside the cliff - just go right, fall, go left and land on the ledge. Grab the E-tank, and then jump to your death. Because it's literally impossible to make that jump with Item 1 or 2. (And seriously - it's Metal Man - who doesn't want that item first?)
  • Originally posted by: RASK1904

    Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

    I don't have a list at the ready, but the multitude of RPG items that are discovered on seemingly random map squares, the first time through the game.



    I know in Dragon Warrior you have to seach a toxic mash? square for an item. Someone tells you something like 25 south 48 west. And you have to go to that exact square. Belive there is an item that takes you there. I remember tring to count that shit out though! Arrrrgh.

    I did the same thing when I was a kid. I spent a ton of time trying to count exactly what square I was at so that I could find that item (was it Erdrick's sword?). Then after quite some time I realize that the Princess's Love item tells you your coordinates. 

  • Mega Man 2 - items in Quick Man stage when the lasers are shooting

    TMNT 1 - pizza where the spike walls are closing in, knowing you can't ever get that pie
  • Originally posted by: dra600n

    TMNT 1 - pizza where the spike walls are closing in, knowing you can't ever get that pie

    what level is that in?
  • Originally posted by: dra600n

    Mega Man 2 - items in Quick Man stage when the lasers are shooting

    THIS ^  with that extra man, nice call Adam. 
  • Originally posted by: SKULLDEATH9000

    Originally posted by: dra600n

    Mega Man 2 - items in Quick Man stage when the lasers are shooting

    THIS ^  with that extra man, nice call Adam. 


    I remember using the time stopper in the quick man stage to not get hit by the lasers and get the items.
  • come on people just 6 more to go.
  • Originally posted by: RockPuppetz

    Originally posted by: dra600n

    TMNT 1 - pizza where the spike walls are closing in, knowing you can't ever get that pie

    what level is that in?


    4th
  • Originally posted by: themj12

    Originally posted by: RockPuppetz

    Originally posted by: dra600n

    TMNT 1 - pizza where the spike walls are closing in, knowing you can't ever get that pie

    what level is that in?


    4th
    Thanks


  • In Dash Galaxy and the Alien Asylum, in stage 10-1, there is an extra life suspended over a pit and the only way to collect the extra life is to kill yourself by jumping in the pit. There is absolutely no way to collect it without dying in the process.  I attached a pic to show everyone what I'm talking about.
  • Got one. The Adventures of Rad Gravity. There's this thing you can get that let's you warp around. You toss it and press a button and appear in its place. It's critical in the last level to bypass some obstacles. Thing is, they programmed it horribly. When you are approached by this spike barrier thing, you throw it down, run, and prepare to warp after it passes it. But the barrier makes it disappear when it hits it. This makes you think it's gone, but really only the image is gone, it's still in the code and you'll warp to where it was.
  • Originally posted by: Maydogg6

    Originally posted by: RASK1904

    Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

    I don't have a list at the ready, but the multitude of RPG items that are discovered on seemingly random map squares, the first time through the game.



    I know in Dragon Warrior you have to seach a toxic mash? square for an item. Someone tells you something like 25 south 48 west. And you have to go to that exact square. Belive there is an item that takes you there. I remember tring to count that shit out though! Arrrrgh.

    I did the same thing when I was a kid. I spent a ton of time trying to count exactly what square I was at so that I could find that item (was it Erdrick's sword?). Then after quite some time I realize that the Princess's Love item tells you your coordinates. 

    It was Erdrick's Token in the swamp. Erdrick's sword is found in the final dungeon.


  • Originally posted by: bimmy_lee

    In Dash Galaxy and the Alien Asylum, in stage 10-1, there is an extra life suspended over a pit and the only way to collect the extra life is to kill yourself by jumping in the pit. There is absolutely no way to collect it without dying in the process.  I attached a pic to show everyone what I'm talking about.


    I bet some idiots have wasted hours on getting that life.
  • 4 more to go
  • Legend of Zelda: The rock picker-upper....thing ring?



    I remember always going for it pretty early in the game, and having to go the long route to get to it. Having to go through all those horse enemies by level 6, and going around Death Mountain, only to activate at least half of those statues before I finally found it and died before walking over to get it. Ugh!
  • 3 more to go.
  • Mega Man 1's Yashichi in Dr. Wily's fourth stage.
    Also, does the white toad house or treasure ship count in SMB3?
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