obviously less developed or high octane than the 4 other contra games i played but i'm a big fan of the game boy aesthetic, music included, so it's not much worse than any of them by me.
this type of GB game, cute little portable versions of then-current home console games, gets i think benefited by the current contexts where they get played: for free/very cheap, not as curios exactly but as a product of underpowered days gone, where they're easier to appreciate as exactly that, miniature versions that don't last as long, have relatively crunched screens, all the silly and/or cute aspects inherent to them that i find charming, even having grown with a wii and then 3ds ps3 wii u. being that those don't make this game unplayable or unfun, just a bit slower and with awkwardly short horizontally jumps, it's a good deal. in our demake-filled landscape i think these games r undervalued (mario land is better than smb1)