Don't feel too bad Pike. If this experience taught me anything it's that I really suck at this game when I actually try to play the whole way through. I'll chalk it up to not really owning it during my childhood so I'm not that practiced at it. In stuff like Mario World and Mario 64 I can absolutely kill at them, but the severe lack of lives compared to later games does not treat me well since I don't know how to not be completely reckless in a Mario game.