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Moments before disaster
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There's a great (and overly detailed, but interesting) breakdown of the problems with the hitboxes and other bugs for this level.
At first I thought OP meant the recessions, 9/11, the school shootings, unattainable financial markers, the pandemic etc. but then I saw the games and yep those too
Oh gods! The TMNT NES game. Those poor kids. Forever scared by what they had to endure.
It's the water level, right? Jesus Christ, they're toast.
The water level isn't so bad compared to the things after it.
The level in the sewer with that 2 block jump and a short ceiling that kills your turtle if you fall in the water is way more diabolical.
Is that the one you can just run over without jumping?
No that’s a one gap pit that drops you back in the lower half of one of the sewers in the first area of the game. But yeah that one is rough too before you realize you can use walk over it
After the water level, disarming the bombs while driving around the van with a timer going is what always got me. Could never get past that.
Who would ever know?!?
I never really understood all the rage over the water level. I could get through it when I was a kid and I didn't even own the game, I would just play it at my friends house. Once you have the layout memorized it's pretty easy to get through, maybe swapping turtles a couple times to spread out the damage.
That sound the seaweed makes still haunts me to this day
The kid on the right... the wind never stood a chance
The wind was thoroughly broken…
Who doesn't like to break wind?
(I played the shit out of Zelda II.... and I liked it.)
Love Zelda 2. People who hate on it are just bad at games.
Kid-Me could somehow navigate that final Zelda II dungeon based on nothing but dumb luck.
Now I can barely get past World 1-1 in SMB.
Maybe they are playing it in emulators. I tried it in a Switch emulator and the input lag made it is almost unplayable.
I only have played it in the 90’s on the NES l think.
Yeah I liked Zelda II. It was definitely different than what you were expecting from a sequel to the original in terms of gameplay. But I remember it had its charm and I seem to remember finishing it. Probably a lot of other kids didn’t like it.
I AM ERROR
Nah, we were tougher back then. That’s just how video games were for us.
Nah, we weren't.
Games are just short back there and the made we spend the an unhealthly amount of hours on loop over the same stages until we get the right timing or any other bullshit they use to inflate the game.
The pain of playing amazing Nintendo games? So the water level is hard. I'd still give anything to go back to these times and play those games for the first time as a kid again.
At least they have Super Mario Bros. The first NES games I owned were that and Ghosts 'n Goblins. I already liked the arcade game, so I knew what was in store. Years later, I learned it had an infamous reputation for being hard, but I never noticed at the time because pretty much all games were hard as balls back then.
That’s some Zelda, it can’t be that bad.
/looks closer
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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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