Anyone who played any beloved third-party NES game:
Oh, that's cute! 😏
Edit: Just so we're clear, I'm poking fun here, I like Demon/Dark Souls just fine.
but waay too many games get compared to them as though they're the first game with ball-retracting difficulty, lmao.
TMNT the original.
Hard Driving in the arcade.
Just like Battletoads. An amazing concept for a game...until they throw "that level" at you and basically end your run right there. It's not the same kind of levels you just got through, it's a "one-off" type of thing, and it's far more difficult than it honestly should have been.
The thing is, that was the case for every Battletoads level. I only ever beat it once in my early 20s because I never played it as a kid so I'm kind of foggy on the exact details but from what I remember, you've got:
Standard brawler Rappelling into a pit Riding moving platforms The lava sled level that everybody bails on Race a rat to the bottom of a series of pits to disarm a bomb A water race level (I think?) similar to the lava sled A weird one-wheel disc thing where you race to the end that requires perfect timing on corners And a rotating tower that you climb to the top to fight the queen.
Also played through it with a friend and we made it as far as it's possible to make it with 2 players -- there's a bug that makes one of the later levels impossible for 2 players. I think it was on the disc race level.
Sooo many quarters wasted. You could almost cheese it with Donatello's reach but not really. And once you were down to Raph lmao good fucking luck.
I liked the overhead movement system though.