oh my...
As kids, we heard or read somewhere that there were a hundred levels or something. So once we found out the cheat that actually gives you enough life force not to die while you're still walking around the earlier levels; we knew what we had to do.

We set up a marathon session on our trusty Atari ST, the three of us taking shifts to operate both controllers (we could only dream of being able to use three- and four-player mode). It took hours, but our excitement grew as we reached L98, L99, then the fabled L100. We raced through the level as fast as we could, until the exit square came into view. As I recall, we were a little apprehensive about taking the plunge - Did we have enough health, magic bottles and keys for the final challenge surely awaiting us? Were we sufficiently rested for the immenent button-pounding mayhem? Which two of us were actually going to have the honour of playing this seldom-repeatable ultimate challenge?

We send our players leaping down the L100 exit, and with baited breath watch the loading screen telling us L101 is loading. This must be it - seems a little bit of lazy coding calling it 101, but we know the old ST has its limits. Then the title screen dissapears, showing us... level one again. Sodding Level One Again! Swiftly followed by L2, L3, at which point we give up, defeated. It seems we misunderstood "only having 100 levels" as meaning "the game is 100 levels long".

edit: being some 2 decades ago, the details are a little hazy
( The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 15:18, Reply)