It really was patently insane, wasn't it - just gradually increasing the madness of the obstacles that it expected you to go through, becoming unfair somewhere around the end of the fifth level and then continuing to ramp up from there. The thing about the continuous attack on the yeti foot boss is unbelievable - though I'm glad Kjorteo's memory was wrong here and it took one perfect run of it going along one line, rather than three laps (or one and a half with two players). Nevertheless, the bleep generator got a workout, needless to say :)

I did see the rocket, Kjorteo showed it to me after we finished the game, though I was never fast enough to get into it. Frankly, why anyone would want to go directly to level 8 is beyond me!