I just thought of this because I was looking up Star Wars Rebel Assault for 3DO in the guide, and it has a pic of Beggar's Canyon. I'm sure my death total in Beggar's Canyon is somewhere around 42 million. For some reason this just stands out for me as a level where I've died a lot. It is probably because it has appeared in sooooo many games. Can anyone think of a level that has occurred in more different games? Maybe the 'death star approach'. Or maybe I'm just imagining it and it was really just that there were a lot of ports of Rebel Assault, and not actually that many different games with this level.
I actually got pretty good at it in the Gamecube release. My first experience with it was on a friend's 386 or 486 PC. I consistently lasted approximately 5 seconds every time before slamming into a wall.
Any other classic gaming levels where you just seem to die... a LOT? My next up would have to be those first two jumps after the Medusa Heads first appear in Castlevania.
(apologies if this topic has been done before... I didn't find a similar one, though)