NES games are difficult.

I’m borrowing a Wii from my family, and I bought StarTropics, one of my favorite NES games. I’ve forgotten how difficult NES games are. I got killed several times in the second dungeon, and I nearly got slaughtered in the first room of the third dungeon. I played all the way through the nineteen or twenty dungeons in Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for SNES, and the onslaught didn’t start in the first room until the very last two or three dungeons (and if I remember right, one of the last three dungeons is completely empty except for the boss, which was beyond creepy when I played it for the first time; I kept waiting for something to jump out at me).  It’s kind of ridiculous. But it’s a very good time waster, which is great, because I’m in dead week, and it actually is dead this time. Woohoo!