It was between this and contra that consumed our 8 bit sidescrolling smash-em-up two player days. I don't even recall the ending, your right though, it was something like.. great job, now play again.. and credits roll.. totally anticlimatic..
...but the point was just to conquer it like you said..
it had to be done in one sitting though, if I recall, because this was the era before save points, am I right?
yeah man, there was no saving of games at this time. If i am not mistaken Zelda was the first game that had a saving mechanism. It might have had some ridiculous 36 digit code that you could write down to "save".... jeez... remember those?
ah yeah, that was a pain.. i used to keep them on scrap pieces of paper under my bed.. it would suck to lose one, or forget it in your pants pocket that your mom put in the laundry.. lol.. still.. NES was arguably still a golden era for video games.. so much versatility and challenge.
With regards to the ending, I think this is the game where you had to fight against each other one on one at the end... if it isn't, then I'm not sure.
You're right you fight together to save the girl. Then you fight each other for the girl
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