8 Video Game Levels That Destroyed Your Childhood

5. Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie - Featuring Ivan Ooze (Snes) - Aircraft Carrier

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First off can we just appreciate how much of a mouthful this games title is? I also love that the devs thought that Ivan Ooze deserved a "featuring" credit when every kid this side of the '90s was not buying this game for that purple chinned chode.

No, we were bugging our parents for this title for one reason only, to be a bloody POWER RANGER, complete with all the amazing abilities that come with it. Which makes it all the more of a gut punch when you realize that for most of the game you'll be playing as a regular teenager! That's right, for about 75% of the game you'll be stuck in your dumpy old human body as the Putty squad and friends tear chunks out of you left right and center.

In this form you take more damage and are much weaker, meaning that if you don't grind the lightning power ups that morph you into a mighty Power Ranger, that any level from the second one onwards is going to be an absolute chore. The Aircraft Carrier, which is itself the second level of the game, is an exercise in !*$%, offering up multiple enemies and tonnes of spike traps which will nearly always see you being hit by something creeping on screen and being pushed back into the floor hazards. It is so incredibly infuriating, and even more so seeing as the keep refuses to let you transform in these sections which would have helped mitigate the damage.

In fact it was so brutal that many likely gave up long before being able to use the Megazord. A dream crushing experience if ever there was one.

Also shout out to the moments where you can be trapped in human form going up against a mid level boss, Kimberly trying to slap the s**t out of an ATV will never not be funny.

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