Name of a difficult video game...

[anwserman]

I cannot think of the name of the game for the life of me.
It features a small little guy who jumps and shoots pellets and takes place in various rip-off scenes from famous video games.

It's known for extremely cheap deaths and its difficulty level.

The name escapes me right now. :(

[Anduril]

"I Wanna be the Guy," maybe?

[HeartBreak301]

Sounds like it to me.

[anwserman]

YES!
+1 interwebs to Anduril :)

[Sord]

On a somewhat unrelated note: Holy shit it's anwserman. How have you been?

[DragonForce]

Mega Man 10 on hard mode is pretty fucking hard.

[FOkyasuta]

Gradius 3 Arcade.

[Alexandria]

Devil May Cry 3 is pretty hard...

[FOkyasuta]

True The JP Hard Mode Was The Normal Mode Over Here. Error Right?

[Alexandria]

True The JP Hard Mode Was The Normal Mode Over Here. Error Right?

Actually it didn't change between regions. There was the first one, which was like you say. Hard mode the normal mode of the 2nd release. It was called Dante's Awakening or something, and it had the easier modes. Both were released in both countries.

[FOkyasuta]

IKR? They Had To Re-Release It Due To It Being 2 Hard.

[AOI_Tifa_Lockhart]

This seems to have turned into a list your difficult video games so:

Super Thunder Blade
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (Master System)
Streets Of Rage 3 (compared to the other 2 this was difficult)
Flintstones (Master System)

Tifa

[Niered]

Demon's Souls. It doesn't get truly hard though until you hit New Game+, before then its just unforgiving, but at New Game+, everything ramps up. You'll be glad you've played the stages before on normal difficulty, because the only thing keeping you alive at times is knowing exactly what is coming next.

[Outrider]

Both Sin & Punishment games. Heck, pretty much any game by Treasure.