No wonder I was such an anxious child:
Definitive catalogue of underwater levels in vidya games 🕹
the bleak fatalism of this gif: try as we might to will a different outcome, Sonic is constantly trapped in a loop of inevitable death
Not strictly a level but
I had a dream about this last night, actually. I was playing a version with a disk error where you’d try to excavate the sea floor for treasure (I know you couldn’t do this in the actual game) and the message it would come up with was just “you have found” followed by random words / letters / numbers that the program would scramble from other locations on the disk.