Ehh, he just played it a lot. Back in the day when it was new my brother bought it and I could pop this game without taking a hit after not too long. I can't do it anymore, not even close and I don't even like playing it now because of all the arguments against it with backgrounds that look like they won't kill you but do, too many hits to take down targets, etc.
NES games did look awful most of the time, especially the main sprite.
I used my copy of Silver Surfer as a donor cart for Little Samson.
I don't regret the sacrifice.
check out my classic gaming review site: http://satoshimatrix.wordpress.com/
Its a hard game, with enough practice anything is possible.
Some one at work loves this game. I wonder if it's his video
Are you learning title-writing from BuzzFeed?
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." --Bertrand Russel (attributed)
I hate it when people don't leave any indication about the actual subject in the thread title or the post.
I have not played SS , is it harder than Ninja Gaiden?
My game consoles and computers:
Atari 2600, Famicom, Super Famicom, Famicom Disk System, NES, SNES, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance SP, SupaBoy, Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, Atari 800XL, Atari XEGS, Sega Saturn JPN, Sega Dreamcast JPN, Sega Genesis, GameCube, DS Lite, Intellivision, Nintendo 64, Atari Flashback 1, DSi XL, Lenovo Y510p, iMac G4, HP G60.