"Tubular" level on Super Mario World

Good move making this available for Gameboy! God I love this game.

i dunno. i just keep getting killed by flying turtles on donut plains 1.

i'm used to getting killed by attrition (metroid, castlevania, doom) or by some sort spectacular fuck-up (halo, star control, syndicate, etc)

maybe the key factor is that i'm playing w/ the keyboard, on a powerbook?

There is one board in level 6 where you have to like go through certain places in a certain order that I always, always fuck up.

the other day i was thinking about playing through this again, and then i remembered that ghost house where you have to go through all these certain places in a certain order or else you just loop until time runs out, and i was like "eh, too much work."

sorry, this game is HARD

keyboard thing might be a huge factor in that dude.

maybe i go bujy a usb control

Fat kid called Cha in my street got a Super Nintendo with this for his First Communion. I was round at his house more often than mine for the next month.

Plus yes, USB controller is needed.

got playstation-style USB controller for $20.

happy to note super mario world IS much easier, particularly controlling the gliding cape. i think a major difference is that it feels much more natural to let go of the d-pad (ie "neutral" direction) than it feels to take your hand off the arrow keys. still f'n hard, though!!

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tbqh & t thinkin that finally jump offa turtles back in the special world level after tubular is harder than anything to do w/tubular.

fuck tubular, i'm having trouble w/ donut plains 1

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, March 28, 2008 1:42 AM (2 years ago)

I no longer feel so alone in this world.

the greatest childhood demon I ever exorcised was beating tubular et al

I think I've beaten it once... was the trick judicious use of the yoshi that can fly when it's got a shell in it's mouth?

where's Z S to tell us all we're cry baby no skill douche bags for sucking at tubular?

in my (drunken) replay this wknd not only did i ace tubular 1st go around i also snagged all the fukken dragon coins.... IN EVERY LEVEL FAGGOTS~!!!!!!

did die like ten times in special world level "way cool" tho as mentioned above~

reporting for duty

you're not douche bags, but you are cry baby no skills, it's undeniable. Keep honin' your skillz at Butter Bridge 2, we who are 1337 will be trouncing Tubular without even thinking about it too much.

I finally found that 96th exit. I never cleared the goal in Star Road 2.

i did every single thing there was to do in this game

beat "tubular" today on my second to last life before we'd agreed we were gonna turn the game off. no yoshis no capes no gimmicks, just super tight maneuvering. this game is a shade too easy 90% of the time, but when it decides to get hard, it's fair-hard, satisfying-hard.

a few months ago I was hanging out w/ a buddy who had the SNES Classic and we decided to give this a go. it was harder than I remembered! then again when I was 11 I had no issue with it so the problem is probably with me. maybe I'm too used to the New Super Mario Bros. games which are more forgiving. btw if you didn't know the New SMB game has a "World 9" which is full of super difficult levels like this...I eventually beat them all but it was a slog. "Tubular" is probably more difficult than any of those though.

the one thing that surprised me about "tubular" is how short it is, versus what you'd expect for some like, brain-busting super-challenge level created by fans using hacks or the new mario maker or whatever. there's not even a halfway market!