9 Amazing Levels Trapped In Terrible Video Games

2. The Whiteboard Level - Duke Nukem Forever

Duke Nukem Forever sucks, this is a pretty well known video game fact and you probably don’t need me to roll through it again. Basically, the game took forever to come out and when it finally did it wasn’t the game anybody wanted it to be. The humour was dated, the graphics were bad, and every shred of Duke Nukem delight had been sucked out of the game.

So what could possibly be worthwhile in a game this infamously bad? An intro sequence with a whiteboard.

Is it possible everyone loved this whiteboard so much because the rest of the game was an exercise in tedium and mediocrity? Look, maybe. But this whiteboard is fantastic. For some reason a game this bad has a whiteboard you can draw on and don’t worry if this sounds fun and you want to check it out because it’s right at the beginning of the game. The possibilities with said whiteboard are endless and there are plenty of images and videos you can check out to see what players managed to do with it. It’s completely irrelevant to the game because no matter what you draw you’ll hear “Oh man, good plan Duke!” over and over again.

Although with a game this terrible I think we can all agree that a level with no relevance to the rest of it is probably what makes it so amazing.

Before the game totally goes to crap this level also lets you fish a poop out of a toilet, kill off an enormous Cycloid alien on a football stadium using rockets, and score a field goal by yeeting the beastie’s eyeball. The best bit is really the whiteboard, though.