8 Video Game Levels That Destroyed Your Childhood

4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES Video Game) - The Dam

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Konami

Well. This level name sure turned out to be appropriate, didn't it? Jeeeesus Christ this level was the equivalent of being told that you must be this high to join the ride and finding out you're the size of an ant about to be stepped on by the heavy boots of Konami as they stomped you into oblivion.

The only thing this level teaches you is that life, sometimes, is crushingly unfair for no reason whatsoever, and given the current climate and potential future we all exist in, I don't think that's a lesson that really needs this hard of a full stop on it.

As a child, the TMNT were everything to me. Move over gargoyles, see yah later Street Sharks, WHO THE f**k CARES ABOUT YOU MUMMIES ALIVE, I've got Leo, Raph, Mikey and Donny to keep me company! It was the weirdest thing to be this hyped up about potentially having a pizza party in an open sewer, but the '90s were a strange time.

However, the only sewer here was the floating detritus of this level. Stinging seaweed, bombs with ridiculous short-timers, and lightning traps which decimated your health, this wasn't a level from a children's video game, this was a goddam war crime.

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