I need to get this game. It's one that I thought I had for the longest time, turns out I didn't.
You need to grab that one. I've actually been playing a lot of it lately. This is one game that would have benefited a lot from a save or password feature. It sucks having to start over every time.
In my opinion I think the lack of battery save and password kills the game.
The answer to that my friend is the Retron 5.
A big part of why I bought one was so I could enjoy games like this, Battletoads, and Ninja Gaiden again.
Ain't got the time I used to have so snapshot save/restore is a godsend.
To this day this is one of my favorite nes games of all time and the one I am proudest for beating without a game genie.