I've been on a bit of a Bonk kick lately. This weekend I beat both Bonk 1 and 2.

I started 3 but couldn't really get into it. Turning big and small just seemed to slow things down. The level design didn't seem great. I finally shut it off when I realized that the smileys that I collected were just used re-play the minigames after the boss battle? (wtf? I like the way they did it in #2, with the elevator that went higher and higher - eventually giving you the blue heart container on the train).

ANYWAY, because I didn't feel like playing Bonk 3, I tried out the NES version.

Is this a joke? While the music is decent, and the controller is pretty good, the graphics are TERRIBLE. It looks like I'm playing a colecovision!

What happened? Did they release this just to make the tg16 version look so much better?