Quote Originally Posted by sycld View Post
That was the first I beat too, I think.

Also thanks for taking away from my achievement by describing how awful your gaming skills were.


Some of the parts I remember distinctly were the first sphinx boss, the sea horse boss (I think it was a sea horse boss??) and the coins spelling out a message in the underwater level, and the jumping Chinamen closer to the end of the game (even at my tender young age I had some awareness of how these were a sorta stereotyped depiction of Chinese by Japanese).

I can't remember how it ended but I do remember going back to the start screen after it was over and getting, like, some sort of harder difficulty? I don't know if I beat it multiple times in a row, but I think I had at least beaten it twice in a row or something.
Well, it did take me a long time, so whenever I got to a new level there was a sense of wonder, like at the fast moving desert things. After I managed to beat the game, I beat it again and again. The repeat levels were slightly harder.

I only found out recently that those were supposed to be Chinese hopping zombies, despite always knowing what jiang shi are.