Stumbling together through Snake, Rattle 'n' Roll - Part 3

[davidn]

Twenty minutes... for two levels, if you can believe it. kjorteo and I struggle together through the final stages of this alleged game, this artefact of pain distilled into the form of a cartridge. In it, we climb the last ice mountain stage (being more successful at going downwards), and then fight against one of the most ridiculously unfair bosses ever created by man or beast. Wish us luck... not with the game, because we've already done that - just with the recovery.

http://youtu.be/iOQc2cCQ-78

As an addendum, shockingly, Terotrous on the GameFAQs boards posted an entirely legitimate run of it - he gets through the game impressively unscathed until the geyser/waterfall section, and then is absolutely destroyed by the six tiles of right-sloping ice at the top of level 10, which claim two continues on their own. Nintendo games just... did not like to be beaten.

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[davidn]

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!