this is awesomely authentic, like at least 8 out of 5 stars for authenticity...it's also ridiculously hard (I'm not total crap at platformers/side scrollers either. used to speed run SMB3 and SMW wayy back in the day) mainly because it seems like the dudes (fireflies? army? bandits? cannibal bandits? idk any of the above I guess) can shoot you from off screen but you can't shoot them from off screen, and trying usually means taking a bullet and losing a third of your health.
any chance of adding checkpoints or something?
(initially that's what I hoped the flags were but I guess they're just golf course flags)