Fuck yeah it is, hardware limitations and all. The NES and arcade versions always felt a little off after learning on the GameBrick.
My first serious post-high-school girlfriend’s mom hated me because I beat her high score on the NES version while being mauled by a pair of very large, very needy cats. I remember being disappointed that I didn’t even break half a million, and it’s really hard to explain that using a higher starting difficulty gives you an almost exponential increase in overall score while you’ve got tufts of Domestic Longhair fluff stuck to your mouth.
Fuck yeah it is, hardware limitations and all. The NES and arcade versions always felt a little off after learning on the GameBrick.
My first serious post-high-school girlfriend’s mom hated me because I beat her high score on the NES version while being mauled by a pair of very large, very needy cats. I remember being disappointed that I didn’t even break half a million, and it’s really hard to explain that using a higher starting difficulty gives you an almost exponential increase in overall score while you’ve got tufts of Domestic Longhair fluff stuck to your mouth.