An early metroidvania with a neat use of a vehicle. I liked it as a kid, but I could never beat it. 3 lives, 2 continues (basically 9 lives with a severe punishment for every third death, in modern terms), and the game takes hours to beat, with you starting from the beginning every time. I have to say, the remake, Blaster Master Zero, fixed a lot of what this game did wrong, though I like the original game's music kinda better.