well, Cyber is right, like, what do you do freaking out there?, press all buttons, and then, you find out UP and DOWN are the correct inputs everyone who can't get that is retarded
i love how hard you worked for that invincibility and you said "i'm gonna make good use of it" and then you didn't...you just watched Tails jump on spikes instead.
"Jumping on it doesn't do anything" But it clearly does. Depending on how much momentum you have, the barrel will drop down farther when you land on it. Most people were stuck on this obstacle because they tried getting past it by jumping, rather than rocking the D-Pad (which, by the way, is completely counter-intuitive). It's actually totally possible to get past it by jumping on it, but it requires a lot of luck and a lot of patience, which a lot of our 5-year-old selves just didn't have.
I hate that barrel which I named it as "Barrel of Doom!!" when I was a kid. lol I had Sonic ready to spindash once I used Tails and kept jumping the barrel till it went down deeply. XD 10 years later, I realized how easy it was.
My Friend, i must thank you.The barrel cinematic was so perfect : music,slow mo, and "zip sound" for the end just after the "1" at the Cunt-o-Meter... Oh my god. At first when it started, i thought that RUclips bug ('cause of freeze) But it wasn't. Than i see the barrel get bigger. I was like "What da fuck ?" And finally the barrel's description... I laughed so hard... Godamit. So hard that my heart hurt me for two days AFTER seeing the video... It's been since 2 years i didn't laugh like this.
@@tl1882 I had the pc port of the game but didn't have internet, I accidentally did it once and didn't even know how I did it. Every time I came to it I just smashed all the keys hoping it happens again
I watched this playthrough when it first came out and didn't subscribe at the time. I remembered this part specifically tonight and wanted to find you, and I'm super happy to see you're still around, and doing well! Absolutely agree on the barrel. Never understood the difficulty people had with it- pushing up and down felt like the right thing to do, if that makes any sense.
"I can maybe understand not knowing what to do for like a minute, maybe two!" I agree that's all it took me to figure it out. But then again, is there anything else in the game that took you more than a minute to understand?
God, I remember watching this Let's Play in college and cracking up at the barrel bit. Somehow that stuck with me all these years. Tonight I got a recommendation of one of your new videos, thought "huh, that name sounds familiar", and lo and behold.
About the barrel, as someone else said: "It's an infamous case of bad interface design. See, there were no visual clues or instructions on how to control the barrel, it appeared to be an obstacle and nothing more. The fact that the object bobs up and down with momentum from your jumping lead people to believe that was the correct way to get past it. Is it possible? Actually, yes it is, though remarkably difficult." You can really make the barrels bob by jumping. That's the logic.
I know people had been complaining to this guy for the 2 years but I'll say my piece: when u jumped on the other barrels, you had an idea of momentum - the higher you jump, the force of falling would push the barrel down further; you see it with the past barrels, u see it with the 2001 barrel. It acted like it needed falling force to "push" the thing further down; the concept of just standing on it and pressing up and down instead of performing an action on it was just alien to children's minds
1:17 Tails: Yipee! These spikes are so fun to jump on! Sonic: O__O Tails, are you jumping on spikes? Tails: Woohooo! This is fun! Uh, I mean OUCH! Sonic: o__o
Dude these lets plays are really good. I usually only watch games ive never played. This is a game ive played 1,000 times through no exaggeration and I love your commentary. Even if you dont come back just know I got love for you fam
This barrel is so fucking easy to figure out! I don't know why all of you are so fucking retarded! You jump on it, you can't move left and right, you're gonna hit left and right like "oh I guess it doesn't do anything". Jumping on it doesn't do anything, and all the buttons do the same thing so you got two fucking options left. Up and down. And whaddya know, IT FUCKING DOES SOMETHING! I don't understand how people are like "Ohh I can't just spend- eight minutes there I couldn't figure out what to do, I've wasted all my life and continues figuring out what to do". I can understand maybe not knowing what to do for like... a minute. Maybe a minute or two at most. BUT IT'S NOT THAT FUCKING HARD! Use your brains! I figured this out as a fucking child! Jesus christ. What's wrong with you people.
that barrel was a nightmare for me when i was kid, i play soinc 3 or sonic 3 & knuckles and i always get trouble here i don't even know how to do it i lost all my live and continue this is horrible
A lot of people here, TvTropes and elsewhere, seem to have had a lot of trouble with the barrels. When i first heard people talking about them, I couldn't even figure out what they were talking about. Glad I'm not the only one who had no trouble at all with 'em.
I remember when I played sonic 3 for the first time. When I got to the barrel it only took me 30 seconds to figure out how you do it. Later when I got more into the sonic series I learned apparently a lot of people had trouble with this. I gusse I just found it easy.
When I was a stupid fucking 7 year old, I had this plug-n-play sonic console with level select in the game select screen. I went to “SONIC 3 KNUCKLES CARNIVAL” (all the level select options on the multicart were similar to this, for example: “SONIC 2 DEATH”) I got to the barrel and immediately thought “oh, it’s moving up and down, better do that too!” I only learned like 3 years later that there were people who unironically had difficulty with the barrel.
I can see how people couldn't figure it out, and I had trouble too at first, but within seconds I remember I quickly got it on my first time playing it.
Honestly, the whole barrel thing is just a good example of bad game design. There's zero indication ANYWHERE that pressing up and down would actually do anything with the barrel. I actually had it down where I could get through that part in about 2-3 minutes with Sonic & Tails by timing the jumping right, but it was still a royal pain.
That level is living hell. It combines the underwater part, bumpers from casino night zone, the vents from oil ocean zone, parts of metropolis zone. Basically the hardest parts of Sonic are reunited on one level.
But that's just the thing - at no point in the level previously were we introduced to the mechanics of the barrel other than jumping on it. It wasn't clear that we had to do that. I spent a year trying to get past that part. I wasn't a bright child.
I could always get past the fist barrel, but the second one got me every time. I can't believe you figured it out that fast, I didn't figure it out till a few months ago.
Here's the deal with the barrel - the solution is yes, VERY SIMPLE. But it is NOT OBVIOUS. It doesn't even make a lick of sense, either. Pressing up and down? Is Sonic using fucking telepathy to manipulate gravity? Jumping on it is the only thing that a gamer should assume makes it work within a Sonic game. Thousands of people got hung up on this. We're not idiots.
This is true. There isn't another part in the WHOLE game, I THINK in ANY Sonic game before that involves using up and down to move objects. And that there is only ONE part in the game that involves HAVING to do this. And since jumping was the only other way to move it, what else are we supposed to assume? What do expect from us when we were just children?? D=
While I agree that the barrel is easy as shit to figure out, the first time I got there, the first buttons I tried were up and down... and they didn't do anything. Because of this, I went without knowing how to get past the barrel until I finally looked it up, and was surprised when it worked the second time I tried. So, for messing up its ONE JOB the first time I encountered it, fuck the barrel.
"Jumping doesn't do anything." Uhh... I got past all the barrels in the game by jumping. I didn't think to use up and down because you pretty much never use the up button in the entire game. The only thing immediately observable about the barrels was that jumping causes them to shift downward. It was enough to get me past it, so can you really blame me for not noticing up and down worked as well? Why screw around with other buttons when you have one that works perfectly fine?
Found Cybershell's Let's Plays because of the mention of his barrel-mocking on TV Tropes "Guide Dang It". Been watching 'em all after I watched that one. Worthy waste of time.
When I was a kid, I had a lot of trouble with that barrel. I thought that I might have just went a wrong way, and ended up spending a lot more than eight minutes. Then again, it was late at night.
I think people are giving him a hard time because Cyber was acting like very much a stuck up douchenozzle about the barrel part. And then when he gets to the actual barrel puzzle and says in a snark voice "Oh I'm jumping on it and it's not doing anything! What am I supposed to do?" and the barrel actually MOVES DOWN WHEN HE JUMPS ON IT and even moves down further further with subsequent jumps, that really doesn't help his case. I seriously doubt he figured out the puzzle as a child given that.
I actually first got to this level today and I got stuck on the barrel so I looked on youtube and here it is. So lucky I didn't spend years trying to figure out what to do.
The barrel was easy but it was a nightmare and specially for people who never play Sonic games but yeah it never explain how to do it so it was confuse before and the fact we don't actually try with the other barrel because we don't want to stop , we like running running and running
Honestly, that barrel wasn't intuitive because if you just tap up and down you might not notice the difference when you consider it's already bouncing after you try to jump on it like a jackass repeatedly.
The reason people had trouble with the barrel is that you can get it to go -almost- far enough down just by jumping on it, so it never occurred to us that there could be more to it than that.
He did reveal in his latest video that he will do the opposite of what people expect which is why he decided to act like an ass about the barrel since he felt most people would think he was going to go off at the barrel not the people, he just wasn't that funny this time.
@GigasGMX It does, and with skill, you can get past it that way, but it's incredibly hard. The fact that it gets ridiculously close just by jumping without precision, but not jumping like an idiot, does not tempt one to believe there is another way. It's the easiest obstacle to pass, but not the easiest to figure out. It's only difficulty is in figuring out.
"And that is the only time Tails will ever be useful in the videos ever!" ...except for that one time with the ball-shieldy Eggman...and he did get you another life....and he does help you out in Marble Gardens....
Back in 1994, I actually called Sega of America's hint hotline for help on how to get past that part. Sure enough, they actually had a telphone option at that time for people that were actually stuck on it.
When I was a kid, I actually got down there one time through jumping. I had to get my little sister to help me by using Tails too though. Together we got enough momentum to get under. @_@; I eventually figured it out when I was a little older, though.
The reason the barrel was so hard is that no kid would expect up or down on the d-pad to actually do something, since (other than spindashing) you never needed up and down before and you never need them again.
The problem with that barrel is that there is no precedent prior to using the Up and down buttons to control anything. The Nut in Metropolis Zone had visual cues to tell the player to run left or right as it looked like a nut traveling on a screw or something. Here there is no visual cue that pressing up or down would do anything. I only got pass that as I exhausted any other method as pressing up and down is the least plausible would do anything. The barrel was just poor level design. If there was an object earlier in the game that encouraged players to use the up and down buttons to control said object then that would be okay as that would teach the player that some objects can be manipulated by pressing up and down.
So at the moment i am watching these LPs back to back and out of a sudden this video is the first (and only) one in the series without it being in an old-school aspect ration so it freaked me the fuck out for a couple of milliseconds not gonna lie
because at least I knew how to beat the boss, I was just shitty at doing it
Please come back
@@essketit-vp7bk wish granted
I love you man
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Ohh I had to spend 8 minutes there I couldn't figure out what to do. I wasted all my lives and continues trying to figure out what to do!
I know this video is way old, but I still find it hilarious how everyone's all upset about Cybershell's barrel comments.
well, Cyber is right, like, what do you do freaking out there?, press all buttons, and then, you find out UP and DOWN are the correct inputs
everyone who can't get that is retarded
@@charmyzard except the barrel moves up and down just by jumping on it. in fact, you can get close to clearing it just by jumping on it.
It took me an 1 hour
@@FireSonicYT but you can get CLOSE but not actually get there
@@FireSonicYT that's how I cleared it when I was a kid, I had a friend over and working together we were able to get it low enough to pass through.
The barrel should be the final boss in Sonic Mania.
sock head absolute genius, and it should have been this.
It's not
Ok I’ll beat it in 5 seconds
It was so difficult that the boss was scrapped
dude you just have to press up and down 😂
i love how hard you worked for that invincibility and you said "i'm gonna make good use of it" and then you didn't...you just watched Tails jump on spikes instead.
That's the joke
The barrel part made me laugh so hard
Same here.
I'll admit, when I first played this zone as a kid, I time overed that barrel part, but only once.
"Jumping on it doesn't do anything"
But it clearly does. Depending on how much momentum you have, the barrel will drop down farther when you land on it. Most people were stuck on this obstacle because they tried getting past it by jumping, rather than rocking the D-Pad (which, by the way, is completely counter-intuitive).
It's actually totally possible to get past it by jumping on it, but it requires a lot of luck and a lot of patience, which a lot of our 5-year-old selves just didn't have.
Who tf gives a Sega Genesis to a 5-year-old? Games require critical thinking, Pre-schoolers can't do that.
@@Flabby555most of us were playing games since 3 or 4.
Your comment is stupid and so are you.
"I like this music more than Ice Cap Zone."
*Reports this video for violent or repulsive content.*
It's his opinion idiot ( There is no exact thing to say r/woosh because I didn't even know if it's a joke )
@@aiwjdaiwkdwadkodawdawd its a joke for fucks sake
@@aiwjdaiwkdwadkodawdawd r/whooooosh
The PC version of Ice Cap is way better than the Genesis version.
@@TheTC I just logged in to tell you that you have garbage taste.
PC Music is straight trash.
I hate that barrel which I named it as "Barrel of Doom!!" when I was a kid.
lol I had Sonic ready to spindash once I used Tails and kept jumping the barrel till it went down deeply. XD
10 years later, I realized how easy it was.
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@@fynnthecarrotman6174 - Master Oggway
My Friend, i must thank you.The barrel cinematic was so perfect : music,slow mo, and "zip sound" for the end just after the "1" at the Cunt-o-Meter... Oh my god. At first when it started, i thought that RUclips bug ('cause of freeze) But it wasn't. Than i see the barrel get bigger. I was like "What da fuck ?" And finally the barrel's description...
I laughed so hard... Godamit. So hard that my heart hurt me for two days AFTER seeing the video... It's been since 2 years i didn't laugh like this.
this god damn barrel literally no joke took me 3 years to figure out
and i didnt even figure it out i just googled it when i got internet
I think i had issues because jumping gives you feedback that seems to ne what you need to do.
@@taben9jake exactly
I learned it before i played because i dont have the game i just emulate it
@@tl1882 I had the pc port of the game but didn't have internet, I accidentally did it once and didn't even know how I did it. Every time I came to it I just smashed all the keys hoping it happens again
@@HargMentor lmao
I watched this playthrough when it first came out and didn't subscribe at the time.
I remembered this part specifically tonight and wanted to find you, and I'm super happy to see you're still around, and doing well!
Absolutely agree on the barrel. Never understood the difficulty people had with it- pushing up and down felt like the right thing to do, if that makes any sense.
"I can maybe understand not knowing what to do for like a minute, maybe two!"
I agree that's all it took me to figure it out. But then again, is there anything else in the game that took you more than a minute to understand?
mushroom hill pulley things
@@johnnytaninthehouse OMG SAME
I WAS STUCK WITH SONIC
Years years ago tho
When the barrel was doing that zoom in effect, the rings looked like eyes watching it grow
God, I remember watching this Let's Play in college and cracking up at the barrel bit. Somehow that stuck with me all these years. Tonight I got a recommendation of one of your new videos, thought "huh, that name sounds familiar", and lo and behold.
Just had this happen to me tonight :p
You should have gone in the god damn special stage
About the barrel, as someone else said:
"It's an infamous case of bad interface design.
See, there were no visual clues or instructions on how to control the barrel, it appeared to be an obstacle and nothing more.
The fact that the object bobs up and down with momentum from your jumping lead people to believe that was the correct way to get past it.
Is it possible? Actually, yes it is, though remarkably difficult."
You can really make the barrels bob by jumping. That's the logic.
04:05 - GREATEST TWIST EVER. All that build up just to absolutely shit on it, lmao
This video triggered people so hard, long before triggering was even a thing.
I know people had been complaining to this guy for the 2 years but I'll say my piece: when u jumped on the other barrels, you had an idea of momentum - the higher you jump, the force of falling would push the barrel down further; you see it with the past barrels, u see it with the 2001 barrel. It acted like it needed falling force to "push" the thing further down; the concept of just standing on it and pressing up and down instead of performing an action on it was just alien to children's minds
Your quality of videos for 2008-2009 is actually really good.
7:20 love you too
4:03
Still gets me to this day.
They hated him because he told them the truth.
lol why did YT convert this to 16:9 over the years smh
Weird
1:17
Tails: Yipee! These spikes are so fun to jump on!
Sonic: O__O Tails, are you jumping on spikes?
Tails: Woohooo! This is fun! Uh, I mean OUCH!
Sonic: o__o
Is this the video where Cybershell officially went full Aspergite
sonic: picks up a guide and says how to use the barel
sonic: up and down um and down what the FUC-! game over.
sonic shorts 6.
Things clearly were happening when you jumped on it... Clearly.
Hooded Man not much, though. thats not how you get past it
@@daehnihc if you time a jump right you can actually get under it but there’s also a risk of getting crushed
The dramatic buildup to the barrel only to say "guys it's really not that hard" gets me every time.
I love how he calls you retarded
Dude these lets plays are really good. I usually only watch games ive never played. This is a game ive played 1,000 times through no exaggeration and I love your commentary. Even if you dont come back just know I got love for you fam
Someone should make cybershells barrel rant a copypasta
This barrel is so fucking easy to figure out! I don't know why all of you are so fucking retarded! You jump on it, you can't move left and right, you're gonna hit left and right like "oh I guess it doesn't do anything". Jumping on it doesn't do anything, and all the buttons do the same thing so you got two fucking options left. Up and down. And whaddya know, IT FUCKING DOES SOMETHING! I don't understand how people are like "Ohh I can't just spend- eight minutes there I couldn't figure out what to do, I've wasted all my life and continues figuring out what to do". I can understand maybe not knowing what to do for like... a minute. Maybe a minute or two at most. BUT IT'S NOT THAT FUCKING HARD! Use your brains! I figured this out as a fucking child! Jesus christ. What's wrong with you people.
that barrel was a nightmare for me when i was kid, i play soinc 3 or sonic 3 & knuckles and i always get trouble here i don't even know how to do it i lost all my live and continue this is horrible
Oh and the obligatory "Do a barrel roll"!
4:36 I love how amidst his massive barrell rant, he still remembers to crush Tails.
A lot of people here, TvTropes and elsewhere, seem to have had a lot of trouble with the barrels.
When i first heard people talking about them, I couldn't even figure out what they were talking about.
Glad I'm not the only one who had no trouble at all with 'em.
Man you gotta make another vid, you're the only lets player that I actually enjoy watching.
I love a Cybershell insults his audience. Remember when he was Cybershell13? Also, anyone remember watching him on Viddler?
I never understood how people got stuck on the barrel either. It's common sense to move it up or down on it; especially for a game that uses momentum.
Enigminator Sonic is beloved and EVIL AF SOMETIMES
dude i dont even care if it's easy or not, that was a superbly executed use of irony
That Barrel Has Frustrated Sonic 3 Players For Years, And For Years To Come Because The First Time You See It, You DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HECK TO DO!
I remember when I played sonic 3 for the first time. When I got to the barrel it only took me 30 seconds to figure out how you do it. Later when I got more into the sonic series I learned apparently a lot of people had trouble with this. I gusse I just found it easy.
When I was a stupid fucking 7 year old, I had this plug-n-play sonic console with level select in the game select screen. I went to “SONIC 3 KNUCKLES CARNIVAL” (all the level select options on the multicart were similar to this, for example: “SONIC 2 DEATH”) I got to the barrel and immediately thought “oh, it’s moving up and down, better do that too!” I only learned like 3 years later that there were people who unironically had difficulty with the barrel.
4:03
This gets me every time
I can see how people couldn't figure it out, and I had trouble too at first, but within seconds I remember I quickly got it on my first time playing it.
7:10 was like a personal afront to the paoins of my childhood.
Your barrel rage made my life.
suscribed just because of this video. Great quality on all accounts.
Honestly, the whole barrel thing is just a good example of bad game design. There's zero indication ANYWHERE that pressing up and down would actually do anything with the barrel. I actually had it down where I could get through that part in about 2-3 minutes with Sonic & Tails by timing the jumping right, but it was still a royal pain.
That level is living hell. It combines the underwater part, bumpers from casino night zone, the vents from oil ocean zone, parts of metropolis zone. Basically the hardest parts of Sonic are reunited on one level.
This let's play is awesome!
But that's just the thing - at no point in the level previously were we introduced to the mechanics of the barrel other than jumping on it. It wasn't clear that we had to do that.
I spent a year trying to get past that part. I wasn't a bright child.
I could always get past the fist barrel, but the second one got me every time. I can't believe you figured it out that fast, I didn't figure it out till a few months ago.
Here's the deal with the barrel - the solution is yes, VERY SIMPLE. But it is NOT OBVIOUS.
It doesn't even make a lick of sense, either. Pressing up and down? Is Sonic using fucking telepathy to manipulate gravity? Jumping on it is the only thing that a gamer should assume makes it work within a Sonic game.
Thousands of people got hung up on this. We're not idiots.
I figured out the barrel when I was seven. It took me like a minute.
This is true.
There isn't another part in the WHOLE game, I THINK in ANY Sonic game before that involves using up and down to move objects. And that there is only ONE part in the game that involves HAVING to do this.
And since jumping was the only other way to move it, what else are we supposed to assume?
What do expect from us when we were just children?? D=
While I agree that the barrel is easy as shit to figure out, the first time I got there, the first buttons I tried were up and down... and they didn't do anything. Because of this, I went without knowing how to get past the barrel until I finally looked it up, and was surprised when it worked the second time I tried. So, for messing up its ONE JOB the first time I encountered it, fuck the barrel.
That damn barrel had me stuck forever. I had no idea you could push down to make it move! I remember jumping for like an hour.
LOL! so true about the barrel. Fantastic video
my nose bled when he ranted the barrel
LMAO! You're so funny about the barrel thing. I'll admit it, I'm slow. It took me a few minutes to figure out the barrel thing. :3
Excuse me for not being a goddamn genius.
"Jumping doesn't do anything."
Uhh... I got past all the barrels in the game by jumping. I didn't think to use up and down because you pretty much never use the up button in the entire game. The only thing immediately observable about the barrels was that jumping causes them to shift downward. It was enough to get me past it, so can you really blame me for not noticing up and down worked as well? Why screw around with other buttons when you have one that works perfectly fine?
Found Cybershell's Let's Plays because of the mention of his barrel-mocking on TV Tropes "Guide Dang It". Been watching 'em all after I watched that one. Worthy waste of time.
The barrel... classic. Fantastic.
When I was a kid, I had a lot of trouble with that barrel. I thought that I might have just went a wrong way, and ended up spending a lot more than eight minutes. Then again, it was late at night.
I think people are giving him a hard time because Cyber was acting like very much a stuck up douchenozzle about the barrel part. And then when he gets to the actual barrel puzzle and says in a snark voice "Oh I'm jumping on it and it's not doing anything! What am I supposed to do?" and the barrel actually MOVES DOWN WHEN HE JUMPS ON IT and even moves down further further with subsequent jumps, that really doesn't help his case. I seriously doubt he figured out the puzzle as a child given that.
I am really smart at those barrels, I love to go 'UP' and 'DOWN' on them when they static!
Nice Background Music, Cybershell!
I am more of a carnival night person than am ice cap
Roflmao, I did not expect that misdirection about the barrel xD
I actually first got to this level today and I got stuck on the barrel so I looked on youtube and here it is. So lucky I didn't spend years trying to figure out what to do.
That barrel part was funny as hell. Favourited
the legendary *drum roll* BARREL :O
That thing you did with the spin drum was fucking funny, it took me forever to understand that shit.
The barrel was easy but it was a nightmare and specially for people who never play Sonic games but yeah it never explain how to do it so it was confuse before and the fact we don't actually try with the other barrel because we don't want to stop , we like running running and running
Tails was pure fucking win in that bonus stage before Robotnik. Love to see it.
nice touch with the 'dreaded' "barrel of doom" XD
Honestly, that barrel wasn't intuitive because if you just tap up and down you might not notice the difference when you consider it's already bouncing after you try to jump on it like a jackass repeatedly.
+Liberals Are The Racists (Conservative Knight) Git gud scrub
the barrel plays epic music suddenlly music scratches u rant on how easy the barrel is lolololololol great video
That one part in Carnival Night Act 2 was like HELL. Because it was before I learned how to work those freaking barrels!
WELCOME TO THE BARREL OF DOOOM!!!!!!
The reason people had trouble with the barrel is that you can get it to go -almost- far enough down just by jumping on it, so it never occurred to us that there could be more to it than that.
You are my hero for the idiot barrel thing. That's exactly what I called myself when I figured it out. :P
I don't understand the barrel shit, either... figured it the fuck out when I was like... 8 years old. Damn.
I think truly Cybershell was one of the ones who couldn't figure it out he just won't admit it and acts all pissed.
He did reveal in his latest video that he will do the opposite of what people expect which is why he decided to act like an ass about the barrel since he felt most people would think he was going to go off at the barrel not the people, he just wasn't that funny this time.
That fuckin barrel is the main reason why I only saw the Sonic 3 ending after grown-up.
I never figured out the barrel. I think I got past it by timing my jumps on it and sneaking underneath it.
@GigasGMX It does, and with skill, you can get past it that way, but it's incredibly hard. The fact that it gets ridiculously close just by jumping without precision, but not jumping like an idiot, does not tempt one to believe there is another way. It's the easiest obstacle to pass, but not the easiest to figure out.
It's only difficulty is in figuring out.
This zone's music rocks :D I agree ;D
Maybe you would have been able to exit the level WITHOUT fighting the boss if Knuckles hadn't sent you up?
"And that is the only time Tails will ever be useful in the videos ever!"
...except for that one time with the ball-shieldy Eggman...and he did get you another life....and he does help you out in Marble Gardens....
I spent my whole childhood trying to figure that barrel out... I thought I had to go under it... Lol
Barrels are worthy of the starfish guys rating in sonic 2
lol... I figured UP and DOWN so easily... and the invincibility music is AWESOME!
Back in 1994, I actually called Sega of America's hint hotline for help on how to get past that part. Sure enough, they actually had a telphone option at that time for people that were actually stuck on it.
When I was a kid, I actually got down there one time through jumping. I had to get my little sister to help me by using Tails too though. Together we got enough momentum to get under. @_@;
I eventually figured it out when I was a little older, though.
I never had a problem with the barrel. Probably took like 1 minute or so to figure it out.
The reason the barrel was so hard is that no kid would expect up or down on the d-pad to actually do something, since (other than spindashing) you never needed up and down before and you never need them again.
The problem with that barrel is that there is no precedent prior to using the Up and down buttons to control anything. The Nut in Metropolis Zone had visual cues to tell the player to run left or right as it looked like a nut traveling on a screw or something. Here there is no visual cue that pressing up or down would do anything. I only got pass that as I exhausted any other method as pressing up and down is the least plausible would do anything.
The barrel was just poor level design. If there was an object earlier in the game that encouraged players to use the up and down buttons to control said object then that would be okay as that would teach the player that some objects can be manipulated by pressing up and down.
So at the moment i am watching these LPs back to back and out of a sudden this video is the first (and only) one in the series without it being in an old-school aspect ration so it freaked me the fuck out for a couple of milliseconds not gonna lie