Generation Retro

Template:Infobox Level Generation Retro is a 2.0 solo Harder 6* level created, verified and published by ArathhSA. It is the fifth and final level in the Poison Gauntlet, after Shrimp.

Gameplay

The level starts with a decently easy cube section. A red alien says, 'Welcome!' A robot section follows during the drop, where the villain alien says 'No!' followed by a wave segment. After a while, the player turns into a mini-wave. After the wave segment, the player enters a ball section where the aliens serve as platforms. There will be a sign pointing downwards, which indicates that the player must go down, where villain then arrives and tries to attack the player, though a blue alien defends them, saying 'Hey!'. Then, it transitions into an easy UFO section where the player must follow the arrows on the screen, followed by a boss-fight with an alien.

The following dialogue will then commence:

Red Alien: Ja ja ja ja

Red Alien: You have not win!^[sic]

Red Alien: You… DIED!!

Player: NOO!!

The alien then shoots a projectile in the middle of the screen, before moving up to shoot another one. A collectible then appears in the middle of the screen, which the player has to collect; once collected, the player fires several rounds of green ammunition at the alien, draining half of its health. The alien continues to shoot a projectile in the middle of the screen, before firing a column of three projectiles; if the player goes below the column, they receive the second coin. The alien then moves up and shoots another projectile column.

The Blue Alien then appears, with the accompanying dialogue:

Blue Alien: Nooo!

Blue Alien: This is the end… for you!!

Red Alien: NOOO!!

The Blue Alien shoots a laser at the first Red Alien, which then fades away as the Blue Alien leaves. The words ‘Level Final’ then flashes on a part of the screen, before transitioning into the final bossfight.

Afterwards, the player fights the main boss, where it says:

Red Alien: Aaarrghhh!!

Red Alien: This is my game!! Its^[sic] time for a game over!!

It shoots laser beams and causes spikes to appear. A green device will appear as a shield to protect from incoming attacks. The boss will now attempt to ram the player, after declaring "Aaarrghhh!!". After the player dodges the second set of attacks, the rest of the level continues as mostly an auto part with dialogue.

Red Alien: Ja ja ja

Red Alien: Game over!!

The Red Alien then summons a spike wall to kill the player. Suddenly, the Blue Alien from earlier appears.

Blue Alien: Noo!!

The Blue Alien shoots a lazer at the spike wall, destroying it.

Red Alien: Aaarrghhh!! You again!!?

Blue Alien: Yeah!!

Blue Alien: And we will end!!^[sic]

Red Alien: NOOOO!!

The Red Alien and Blue Alien each shoot a laser towards each other. Unfortunately, the Red Alien’s laser overpowers the Blue Alien’s, thus killing the Blue Alien.

Player: NOOOOOO!!

Red Alien: Ja ja ja ja!

Player: GAME… OVER!!

The player shoots a laser towards the Red Alien, killing it.

Red Alien: NOOOO!!

The level then ends. The third coin is accessible in this part, being a 'free coin' without any extra effort required to obtain it.

User coins

• Coin 1: 22% - To get the first coin, the player must fly up after the first obstacle and go into the block to get the coin.
• Coin 2: 57% - The player can collect this coin by flying under the alien's attacks.
• Coin 3: 98% - This coin is free upon completion.

Trivia

• The level's password is 172839.
• The level contains 23,084 objects.
• The level's duration is 1m 41s.
• The aliens are from the Atari game Space Invaders.
• This level is seemingly a harder version of the popular level, ReTraY.
• The red alien says the phrase 'Jajajaja' (which means 'Hahahaha' in Spanish) and has somewhat broken English. It is likely because English is not the creator's first language.
• If the player stays on the ceiling at the end of the level, they will die at 98% because the wall that the alien used to stop the player suddenly stops moving to the right at that moment.
  • If the player flies into the ceiling rather than staying on it, they will die at 99%, also because the wall stops moving prematurely.
• The player actually shoots three laser beams at the alien, but only the first two are shown, with the third bullet being invisible.
• At 17%, if the player flies off the structure or misses the second green orb, they pass by a weird circular object with decorations (and an eyeball which is not present when skipping the orb) that has no group IDs attached to it and is not a coin.
• This level used to get a lot of hate when initially added to the Poison Gauntlet due to the unfitting theme and long boss-fight. It still gets a vast amount of hate for its difficulty, poor playtesting and decoration according to the community and other reasons.
  • Colon made a video in 2023, where he explained why he thought Generation Retro was the worst level in the game.
    • Colon explained in the comments that he did not hate the level but rather hated that RobTop put it in the Poison Gauntlet.
    • ArathhSA, the creator himself, commented on the video, confirming that he made Generation Retro when he was 13.
      • However, people blame ArathhSA for making the level other than RobTop for adding it to the Poison Gauntlet.
    • This video prompted McMiner3244 and SpaceMagicGD to create a remake of the level, Retro Generation, which fixed most of the problems with the level.
    • Another Generation Retro remake was created, by the user ZenyXcz, which was called "Retro Legacy". This also fixed the original level's flaws, alongside improved visuals.

Videos

File:-Poison Gauntlet- "Generation Retro" by Mordeth - Geometry Dash 2.1 - All coins

Credits to JafetMtz.