Ghosts 'n Goblins

Ghosts 'n Goblins is a platform game in which the player controls a knight named Sir Arthur, who must defeat zombies, ogres, demons, cyclops, dragons and other monsters to rescue Princess Prin Prin, who has been kidnapped by Satan, the king of the demon world. On his way, the player can get new weapons, bonuses and additional armor that can help him in this task. The game is often classified as very difficult by arcade standards and is commonly considered one of the most difficult games ever released. Gametrailers.com considers the game to be the second most difficult game ever made. The player can only be hit twice before losing a life (the first hit takes away Arthur's armor, and the player must continue in his underwear until he finishes the level or finds new armor). When the player loses a life, he returns to the beginning of the level or halfway through if he has made it to that point. Also, each life can only last a certain amount of time (usually about three minutes), with the clock resetting at the beginning of a level. When the clock runs out, the player loses that life immediately. After defeating the boss, but only with the cross weapon (if the player does not have the cross weapon, he is informed that he needs it to defeat the boss, and he must start again at the beginning of level 5 and repeat rounds 5 and 6, whether he gets the weapon immediately or not), the player is informed for the first time that the fight was "a trap devised by Satan". The player must then replay the entire game on a higher difficulty level to reach the real final battle.