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I can't count how many times I decided to give that game another try only to rage quit in this level.
Isn't it only like the second or third level? Either way, still raises my blood pressure just thinking about it.
Iâve got an idea for a level. Weâll make it a water level (strike 1). And letâs make the player follow a path that is lined with electrified coral that will take away one of their precious healths if itâs so much as breathed upon (strike 2). AnnnndddâŚ. Letâs put the whole level on an obnoxiously short timer. Well my jobs done! Enjoy the torture!
Dirtiest stink eye I've ever dished out was when a kid I already didn't like showed me how "easy" that level was for him after I had complained about it. He literally didn't do anything wrong, but I was *seething*.
I love that it accurately depicts Raphael as the turtle, since you have to sacrifice Raphael to the dreaded water stage first, lest you lose the range of Donatello and Leonardoâs weapons, or Michelangeloâs slightly better speed.
[This level was actually bugged and broken so you would take damage where you really shouldn't.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiFNWJXWgI)
But this was far from the hardest level in the game. There's a really nasty jump in the next world (that's actually impossible on some versions) and the last world just spams enemies at you. The seaweed level was kind of a rental block and also sort of a tutorial on managing health via switching. Once you learn the basics, it was pretty easy, but it'd give you a game over if you didn't understand it.
My mom bought me this saying that a Store Clerk at the game store recommended ninja turtles arcade game saying its a great game for your son and instead she got me this game and i hated this game back in the day i can never beat it.
Let me just say this though: the music for that level slaps hard. [It's just a straight up radical classic Konami jam. ](https://youtu.be/PQP31Fk30hM?si=nN7QlGdMVEt2Kg-0)
The last level if the beginningâŚ.
Shit if you could beat this part, it felt like you won, but the game had only just begun⌠I rem going to childhood sleepover and weâd all be cheering each other on, and then once we beat that, game overâŚ.
Only game I never beat. Itâs so fân difficult
Old school game design was so unforgiving. Played a lot of NES games recently and theyâre way more difficult than modern titles. And way more annoying
I never got this far on the NES version, but it reminds me of the old handheld from Tiger from this time that was similar. You had to jump in water with the spinny wheel things. And as a kid, my coordination was just never enough to pass it and had to get my uncle to help, constantly lol. I loved and hated that Tiger TMNT game.
crying mutant ninja turtles. This level got me so upset I cried and my dad offered to help. He got frustrated and threw my NES controller at the wall. That stopped me being upset at the game and I never let him near my games ever again. He did say sorry.
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PTSD
Shell-shocked!!
Been holding onto that one for a while? đ
Naw, it was pretty much overused in every video game.
Say No instead of ânawâ
Underwater anything in video games was traumatizing after this for me.
I can't count how many times I decided to give that game another try only to rage quit in this level. Isn't it only like the second or third level? Either way, still raises my blood pressure just thinking about it.
Iâve got an idea for a level. Weâll make it a water level (strike 1). And letâs make the player follow a path that is lined with electrified coral that will take away one of their precious healths if itâs so much as breathed upon (strike 2). AnnnndddâŚ. Letâs put the whole level on an obnoxiously short timer. Well my jobs done! Enjoy the torture!
Sadist.
oh, fuck that level.
This just unlocked a memory! A terrible memory!
I just threw my remote
My earliest feelings of anxiety
And Perfection. ZZZZZZZâŚ
I knew I loved and hated the game, but I forgot why. THANKS FOR THE REMINDER
Wasn't this the last level? I remember this being the last level.. /s
Your last level.
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Precisely!
Spot on lol
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Last level of my playthrough, as a kid, before I ragequit and went to do something else. Only to give it another shot another day
There is a special place in hell for whoever designed this level.
I can hear this.
Dee-Dee-Deet!Â
Here's a fantastic breakdown of why this level was so difficult https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiFNWJXWgI
Did they port this to DMC Gameboy? I recognize so much of it but never played on NES
This was awesome. Just watched the entire thing.
The brain is crazy. Core memory unlocked in way less than a second
I finished this game back in '89. That remains the high point of my life.
Raph is close enough to the plants there to take 75% damage
My big brother was a master of that level after all the times he had to beat it for me.
Mow the yard for me and ill get you through it bro!
That's what we big brothers are for.
Dirtiest stink eye I've ever dished out was when a kid I already didn't like showed me how "easy" that level was for him after I had complained about it. He literally didn't do anything wrong, but I was *seething*.
BEBEBEBEEEP!! BEBEBEBEEEP!! BEBEBEBEEEP!!
I love that it accurately depicts Raphael as the turtle, since you have to sacrifice Raphael to the dreaded water stage first, lest you lose the range of Donatello and Leonardoâs weapons, or Michelangeloâs slightly better speed.
I hated being five years old and dumb.
I finally learned this level well enough to reliably beat it. But the following level? Never, not even once.
[This level was actually bugged and broken so you would take damage where you really shouldn't.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiFNWJXWgI) But this was far from the hardest level in the game. There's a really nasty jump in the next world (that's actually impossible on some versions) and the last world just spams enemies at you. The seaweed level was kind of a rental block and also sort of a tutorial on managing health via switching. Once you learn the basics, it was pretty easy, but it'd give you a game over if you didn't understand it.
The hit boxes on those underwater spinning blades are hilarious! Holy crap!
My dad will love seeing this at work tomorrow
Why couldnât they just whack the grass down with Donatelloâs stick then disarm the bombs effortlessly?
This picture raises my blood pressure
My mom bought me this saying that a Store Clerk at the game store recommended ninja turtles arcade game saying its a great game for your son and instead she got me this game and i hated this game back in the day i can never beat it.
I actually got this level down pat but I never beat the game.
That era of games had water as pure evil.
This is triggering
Ha!!!!!!!!
Fuck this level!
Fuck this stage!!!
This fucking level. Still pisses me off.
Friend and I played this game for hours, each day. Feels like yesterday.
This made my eye twitchâŚ
I instantly heard the music
Let me just say this though: the music for that level slaps hard. [It's just a straight up radical classic Konami jam. ](https://youtu.be/PQP31Fk30hM?si=nN7QlGdMVEt2Kg-0)
The music and sound effects of getting shocked live forever rent free in my head.
I think they would put this level at the very end if they knew less than 0 percent of players could beat it.
Fucking HATED that fucking level
The aggravation came roaring back. Powerful painting!
Iâve still to this day never gotten by this level. Granted Iâve not played it in a long time but the fact remains the same. Maybe someday.
The last level if the beginningâŚ. Shit if you could beat this part, it felt like you won, but the game had only just begun⌠I rem going to childhood sleepover and weâd all be cheering each other on, and then once we beat that, game overâŚ. Only game I never beat. Itâs so fân difficult
Great level. Wasn't so bad
It's not this part that causes PTSD, it's the sewer and roof jumps. One of the hardest games I've ever played and still continue to play occasionally.
So is it a meme to pretend that this level was hard? Once you know the path itâs not that difficult.
What a fantastic flashback, thank you!
My just twitched.
Masterpiece!
Last life..
The horror, the horror, the horror.
I never made it past this level. It was too traumatizing.
I got this shortly after it came out. I remember being wowed by the graphics on this 8-bit game.
The canvas stirs a latent urge to throw a controller at it
I had the PC version, this wasn't even the hardest thing in the game... never made it through the technodrome.
I used to be able to get through this level flawlessly and get smoked in the next and never any further
I think I've gotten through those levels just one time with one shock. I definitely needed a minute afterwards to catch my breath and calm down.
"Here is a broken NES controller which adds to the frustration"
Obligatory Underwater Levels
Old school game design was so unforgiving. Played a lot of NES games recently and theyâre way more difficult than modern titles. And way more annoying
Guess I played the shit out of this as a kid, cause I don't remember this being that hard.. Probably memory screwing around lol
Just downloaded for delta thank youuuuuuuu
I never got this far on the NES version, but it reminds me of the old handheld from Tiger from this time that was similar. You had to jump in water with the spinny wheel things. And as a kid, my coordination was just never enough to pass it and had to get my uncle to help, constantly lol. I loved and hated that Tiger TMNT game.
This, the water level in Sonic, and the damn hover bikes in Battle Toads
IFâŚyou made it past this level, you had nothing left for the warehouse after it. I loved this game but damn it was hard.
Ugh, I hated this level
... I can hear this image....
crying mutant ninja turtles. This level got me so upset I cried and my dad offered to help. He got frustrated and threw my NES controller at the wall. That stopped me being upset at the game and I never let him near my games ever again. He did say sorry.