I played this for a couple of days... very nice game. Tough as nails at first.
I stopped playing when I made it to the final stage.
Yes.
I made it to the final boss... I KILLED THE FINAL BOSS!
And then as I was about to finally win! Some random falling man or something comes out of the sky and kills me as I was like a few pixels from the exit.
ha..h.a...
I had played from beginning to end/// I stopped playing Spelunky after that ;(
[btw I never saw the city of gold! I loved all the secrets to discover in the game, that was half the fun! That blood healing thing was pretty amusing. Those stupid Yetis would sometimes hit me on a wall, and I bounce right back to him. and he does this until I'm dead. Well, one time while I had the blood thing, the Yeti pounded on my body for about 5 minutes while hearts kept pouring out of me lol ... oh and I never figured out what the Ankh did]