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Level 219: Toy Story (SNES)

Secret Levels: Retro Game Reviews · December 8, 2025

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Which I love the title the title alone is so funny to me I don't know why but you have to rescue the different aliens that are trapped in this maze Because this isn't just like a little normal maze. This is a fucking doom maze This looks like doom you go into a first person doom like level Guys, you definitely do You have 150 seconds. I think is how much time you have But you have to you have to rescue four or five different aliens. So you're you're searching around this doom like map It's quick to change up…

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... Um, but you know, what do I know? There's there's not really an objective in this one except get to the end of the level because Level 11 is where it gets real because now this level is called really inside the claw machine Which I love the title the title alone is so funny to me I don't know why but you have to rescue the different aliens that are trapped in this maze Because this isn't just like a little normal maze. This is a fucking doom maze This looks like doom you go into a first person doom like level Guys, you definitely do You have 150 seconds. I think is how much time you have But you have to you have to rescue four or five different aliens. So you're you're searching around this doom like map It's quick to change up too. Yeah Oh, yeah, it's pretty jarring that you know what though that's I Want out when we talk about our ratings and stuff? I am gonna praise the fuck out of that because I love how many little differences there are you've got your the auto running Scroller or the like the where you're riding shit. You have this you have the micro machines There's a lot to do in this game. That's really unique and fun ...

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But there's a few things with how the game controls and the controls itself that I just didn't love I definitely didn't love the fucking rc level Levels because you're so slippery. It's like you're on ice. Yeah, it's very very rough on those. Yeah And even you know, even the doom level kind of you kind of get hung up on the walls Because and this is my thinking like this wasn't a doom game. So I don't think that that got flushed out all the way It was a little rough around the edges. And and I think it was just…

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And like you said the racing buzz like that used to be so frustrating as a kid And the part where you can't grab the rope or I couldn't every time I went through that level I could not grab that stupid rope to shimmy across it So the doom level like I said You'll want to be pissed that you keep getting hung up and that like the turning on that is not so good But it's not that bad um the platforming can be cheap with enemies popping up and flying out of nowhere like I've already said but I don't know the boss…

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Are you making me change this for the better because we always talk about how we love the change like up in the gameplay style this game even though it can be a flop sometimes with the rc ones, but When you're riding on the skateboard, dude rex you're flying with buzz. You're doing the Doom level there's a whole bunch of different shit in this game. It's not just your static game It's this game goes places and i'm okay with that i'm i'm here for the ride. I'm with you You've sold me you're right. I do love the…

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Blockers, there's pylons. Yeah So this one this one i'd say is one of the harder levels just because it's hard to tell where you need to go and then you have that that Dread of in the doom of the batteries running out. So it's not like you can take your time and be like Oh, I need to go left here. I need to go right here And then there's like little golden markers on the road, but you can't really follow those Yeah, it's like I said, it's it's One of the more difficult ones just because it's like where do I go? ...

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There's a lot of like hooks and stuff in this one that you can swing on you have The the shark is in this one and he's jumping up and howdy howdy howdy he's snapping at you. So Uh, you gotta watch out for him. There's little clown toys that pop up in this one, too There's one part in this level and as I was streaming the other day twitch.tv slash Toby Von Doom Where I play the research live? ...

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... Um very sad I personally and this is just my personal opinion. I think the doom level doom like level looks a lot better on the sega genesis I think the darker colors and darker tones fit better, but it also just has like a better Uh player hub looking thing and it just it looks better on sega It's very off-putting on the smash. Yeah, there's something just a little off about it. But yeah sega genesis It's like whoa, that looks fucking sick Uh, also sega genesis has a level that's not even in the super nintendo…

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