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Secret Levels: Retro Game Reviews

Level 214: Ghoul School (NES)

Secret Levels: Retro Game Reviews · October 12, 2025

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I'm player one whipping death with a towel Toby non-player to patriotic motherfucking goos This is a retro video game review show where we go over one game prep So to go over the history of the game play some fun facts and then You go right into the rage meter Like you want to grease up your asshole and jump on top of the flagpole and try to fight for your dear life Guess what's not gonna work cuz that flagpole is also on fire Yeah, it's gonna be a tricky situation Well, you know how people always want to meet…

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... (Music) Hey there gamers welcome to the secret levels podcast on this week's episode we go to Google school I'm player one whipping death with a towel Toby non-player to patriotic motherfucking goos This is a retro video game review show where we go over one game prep So to go over the history of the game play some fun facts and then You go right into the rage meter Like you want to grease up your asshole and jump on top of the flagpole and try to fight for your dear life Guess what's not gonna work cuz that flagpole is also on fire Yeah, it's gonna be a tricky situation Well, you know how people always want to meet you outside of the flagpole though Yeah, like the fighting stuff. So maybe if you're on top of it already, they don't want to fight you. It's like a Mario overshot his landing and landed on the flagpole Yeah, we're like the pole vaulters that dude and they hit their ball sack. Oh, yeah that happened once on the Olympics. Yep He was a hammer, bro ...

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game players gave it four out of ten honest gamers gave it three out of five and Just games retro gave it four out of five and the video game critic gave it an F Yeah But uh goobs, that's all I got for fun facts Well, it's time time to give you a rage meter Ray This is the rage meter We're gonna take a 1 to 10 and tell you how pissed off this guy made us how pissed off goobs So pissed off that you're gonna run through a school completely naked Of course, no one else is in there And then all the ghosts are gonna…

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So we kind of look at things you have to fucking do yeah there really is I Feel like a lot of casual players wouldn't finish this game or wouldn't even attempt to finish this game They would play it and be like, okay, fuck this game but yeah, I Thought this game was an 8 out of 10 on the rage meter. I was really pissed at some parts but We should settle down Give this game a nice one to ten rating overall One being it's the worst game we've ever played ten being it's the best game we ever played Figure out is it…

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terrible you have to be so close that you will get hit and You'll just have to eat some of those the damages at the at the beginning of the game You eventually get better weapons, but at first it's really frustrating So I guess that's not really a rage thing because you do get happier and with with the new weapons But at first you're pretty pissed off to have that stupid bat The game is it also it's kind of fucked me walking around a school guns like this from this day and age Yeah, yeah, they'd like back like…

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Hey, I think that's pretty fair For a very ambitious game, you know And it's ghoulishly scary All right, this is the end of the episode we appreciate everyone for listening and celebrating rage-a-ween with us Scary ghosts and stuff Scary ghosts and stuff. Uh, hey, we got a few things to promote and then we can let you guys go but We definitely want to tell you that soon In november and december we will be running Gameboree six

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Dr. Femur wanted to keep it overnight to study it because spike said it had grown twice the size since the day before Spike swore he heard a laugh as he handed it off to the doctor Outside the storm raged more I Thought you were gonna go As soon as spike left the room the skull transmitted a message to the realm of the dead The ghouls had began their assault With the skull weirdness off his back spike needed to find a date for the annual Halloween dance the only person he wanted to go with him was Samantha…

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