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. A sign pointing downwards indicates that the player must go down. The villain then arrives and tries to attack the player, but a blue alien defends them. 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. After a while, the blue alien will arrive and defeat the enemy alien.
Afterwards, the player fights the main boss. 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 dodging, the enemy will start speaking some dialogue, followed by the attempt to kill the player using a wall. Then, the blue alien reappears, and the gameplay is auto from here. He tries to fight the red alien, but he gets killed. The player responds with 'No!' and gets followed by a laser beam shot directly at the main boss, concluding the level.
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, which was called "Retro Legacy". This also fixed the mistakes and has way more stuff in it.
- Colon made a video in 2023, where he explained why he thought Generation Retro was the worst level in the game.