Video Game Challenges by Hupfen

Along with the save/kill the animals bid war at each GDQ event, challenges for this SNES game include 11%, Reverse Bosses, and the Morphball Run.

You'll want a lot of bombs: it's possible to ignore the cave on the first screen of this 1986 game and get as far as Death Mountain without obtaining the sword.

In Spelunky, a near-impossible challenge for a single player involves obtaining this nightshade fruit and, in a reference to the bizarre wizards in Kid Icarus, throwing it at the final boss to transform him.

A custom rule set in Goldeneye, causing all shots from player or enemy to be fatal, has been given this unofficial, thematic name; a different Bond-related term is used for the difficulty level that allows for the customization.

Put these three in order from shortest to longest:
A: The men's mile run world record as first ratified by the IAAF
B: The Super Mario Bros. Any% speedrun world record as of July 1, 2016
C: The run time of the album version of Lana Del Rey's Video Games

A series of three super-hard Tetris arcade games have this rank, also the name of an award given by the Mystery Writers of America, as their subtitle and crowning achievement.

The second-hardest in the PC version and the hardest in the Playstation port, this difficulty level in DOOM may be a more familiar term when associated with a Kubrick film. (And it's the second Lana Del Rey reference in this quiz.)

Desert Bus, part of an unreleased Sega Saturn game starring this pair of skeptics/entertainers, is a challenge in patience that requires 8 unbroken hours of dull but attentive play to score a single point.

Translating to "remodel," "reorganize," or, more appropriately, "hack," this Japanese word is used to describe unfairly difficult hacks of Mario games.

A challenge in Half-Life 2: Episode 2 involves stealing one of these items, just like in Amélie, and carrying it all the way to a launching rocket.

Because each opponent - even Mr. Dream - has audio cues to telegraph their attacks, Little Mac can go all the way through this 1987 game with a blindfolded player at the controls.

A truly impossible challenge is to complete this PC racing game, since the program crashes whenever you try to play a specific course. (YOU'RE WINNER regardless.)