Yeah, this level pops up all the time on “Nintendo hard” (read: unfair difficulty) level lists, but it really wasn’t much of a problem. You would often lose some of your health bar and at worst have to switch out one of the turtles because of low health, but that should’ve been mostly it. The game itself was pretty damn hard overall and there are plenty of unfair jumps, annoying respawning enemies, and mazes to complain about that are all designed to make you redo sections and sap your health, but the dam in particular never really felt like all that much of an issue.
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Sabin10@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Actual 80s kids grinded this level until they could make it through without taking damage. When you only owned a half dozen games you got pretty good at all of them.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I only ever had 3 when I was young(11): Mario/duckhunt combo, contra and Zelda. Boy was I excited when I got my Nintendo magazine with the first and second quest walkthrough for Zelda. But around 14 I learned Hollywood video Rented games and I got to play a lot more. This was the only game I rented and never finished cause I couldn’t afford the rental late fee.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My mom bought me this game when I was little. I got stuck on this level, she tried to help me, decided the game was broken and took it back. She traded it for Mario 3 and I was not disappointed.
Years later I went back and finished this game.