The first C64 game I completed. It's a competent SMB 1 clone, but significantly harder due to some wonky enemy placement and ultra-precise jumps in some of the later stages. Also, you lose all of your diamonds (equivalent of coins) upon death which makes racking up extra lives exceptionally difficult until you know what you're doing.
I was a big fan of the DS game (which I honestly think is the better place to start with this franchise) and Twisted Dreams, so I'm glad I decided to go back and play this through and eventually got to a point where beating it without save states was no issue.
*For the love of god, if you're playing on an emulator, make sure you map "up" to an actual button. Old C64 games collectively had this weird thing where up on the keyboard (or joystick) was jump instead, and I'll never understand what madman thought that was acceptable.
I was a big fan of the DS game (which I honestly think is the better place to start with this franchise) and Twisted Dreams, so I'm glad I decided to go back and play this through and eventually got to a point where beating it without save states was no issue.
*For the love of god, if you're playing on an emulator, make sure you map "up" to an actual button. Old C64 games collectively had this weird thing where up on the keyboard (or joystick) was jump instead, and I'll never understand what madman thought that was acceptable.