8 Video Game Levels That Destroyed Your Childhood

A New Hope issit? Well, I abandoned all of mine after booting this absolute terror up as a child. The NES was known for its brutal difficulty, but this was something else seeing as many kids couldn't get past the first bloody level!

Controlling Luke with what appears to be that balloon-headed sickness from Theme Hospital, we had to navigate a cave with slippery controls, tiny platforms and best of all, super floaty jumps which meant you'd be eating spikes for every meal in short order.

Even if you did get out of the cave this game would punish you level after level with unfair enemies, ridiculous bosses and driving sections that allowed you to plough into rocks and hazards full speed without any warning.

Possibly the worst thing about this was though that when the SNES rolled around, the powers that be decided to revamp this waking nightmare. Now if it were you or I in charge of the good HMS f**k You that was the original, I'd be looking to tone down the difficulty somewhat to allow the target audience of youngsters to actually see the thing through to completion.

But much like trying to squeeze by Ben Grimm in a hallway that's the devs decided that this would be a hard pass, and basically kept the difficulty intact but made the graphics look super swish, in effect conning a NEW generation of kids into thinking this would be a nice afternoon joyride. How wrong we were.