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[Chudder Barbarity]

Turbo tunnel is not that hard, because you can memorize the patterns.

the whole game is that, though

turbo tunnel is not that hard because it comes early enough that it's easy to get back to in order to actually begin memorizing the patterns, unlike volkmire's inferno, rat race, clinger winger...

fucking bonkers that they made a whole game with only like 3 levels worth of anything approaching standard beat 'em up/platformer gameplay and everything else is a deathrace

Jeff Gertsmann’s videos about old NES games makes me question Rare competence in game design during that era.

Western devs in general were clueless in that era. It's no coincidence that 9/10 games fondly remembered from gen 3-4 were made in Japan. 

Battletoads for example was not even playtested by the devs own admittance lol. Compare it to an actual tough but fair game like say, Ninja Gaiden. There's a 'rhythm' to it. It's (mostly) not just random shit pasted together to screw over the rental market.
Gaijin wouldn't understand.