5 Impossible Video Game Difficulty Spikes No-One Saw Coming

You gotta love them old-school difficulty spikes and this one from Battletoads had us hopping mad. The Wind Tunnel sees your water loving lads try their best to navigate an impossible series of dangers while going as fast as possible - which more often than not leads to you getting more cut up than my feelings after listening to Dido for the first time.

For many, it was the sheer speed in which you have to approach this that made it so tough; one false move and boom it’s back to the start. A frickin' doozy.