Haha. Good review. I honestly wonder if it's just nostalgia that makes me like this game... We actually own this on Nintendo, and both me and my brother were able to beat it without caring how crappy the interface was. I think that whole unlimited continue thing helped a lot, otherwise I probably never would have liked it as much as I did.
I'll admit playing it again on an emulator I was really able to see it for what it was... but then part of me wondered whether playing it on the emulator made it actually harder to play somehow.
Anyway, I think you did a great job summarizing its strange perplexing attractiveness. I have a feeling that if I really put effort into playing it again, I'd feel the same way.
I rather enjoyed this. Thanks for reviewing it.
[Eating EmP's brain] probably isn't a good idea. I mean... He's British, which means his brain's wired for PAL and your eyes are NTSC. - Will