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** ''[[Takeshis Castle]]'' is Nintendo Hard in TV game show form. It ran for three years, each episode had 100-142 starting contestants; only nine people ever won (this isn't including the joke episode where everybody won).
** ''[[Unbeatable Banzuke]]'' mostly involves either getting through an insanely complicated obstacle course using an unusual method of travel (like walking on one's hands, on stilts, with a wheelbarrow, etc.), completing an oversized children's game, or performing as many exercise feats as possible within a time limit. Out of the hundreds that try their luck, only 2 or 3 on average manage to succeed, with the record before the show's cancellation being 7 wins.
** ''[[Hole In The Wall]]'' is another game that's pretty difficult to win, due to the fact that most of the time the holes are way to small for the average contestants to fit through properly and if the hole is destroyed, the contestant loses the round regardless of whether they were pushed off of the course or not. The difficulty was shot [[Up to Eleven]] during the final round where the contestant was BLINDFOLDED and had to listen to their teammates instructions in order to get through the hole. Couple this with the fact that some of the later rounds had holes that were airborne in the MIDDLE of the wall, which required the contestant to [[Luck -Based Mission|blindly jump and get lucky enough to clear the hole]] and you can see ''why'' the success rate of the winners is so low.
* ''[[Minute to Win It]]'' is a prime example of this trope. The first few levels are usually simple, but once you hit around Level 6, they truly start getting Nintendo Hard (try bouncing six marbles into tiny thimbles, or keeping three marbles on a slanted table with the back of a spoon for a full minute, or using a chopstick in one hand to make a stable tower of ten metal nuts on a wooden board in the ''other'' hand). But the real head of the beast is ''Supercoin'', the Million Dollar game. You have to bounce a quarter off of a table into a water jug 15 feet away, with the hole being a mere 1.75 inches wide (barely larger than the quarter itself). Needless to say, it's basically a [[Luck -Based Mission]], and of the eight people who have tried it (only one of whom got there the "legitimate" way, mind you), all have failed.
** It's getting so bad that now the audience even groans upon hearing the game's name. That's how stupidly hard it is.
* ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' post-Roger Dobkowitz (season 37-present) has been accused by longtime fans of being ''Nintendo Hard'' - from brutal pricing game setups to impossible to bid showcases, especially killing Double Showcase Winners. On the week of January 11-15, 2010, only three games were won.