This game wasn't too hard, but i also thought the X6800 version was way better. I heard so much hype over this game before it was released way back when, and it must have been the lingering attachment to the arcade that made people go nuts over it's then upcoming release for the SCD format, as i wasn't blown away wheni borrowed it from my buddy. I DO like it, it's just taht it doesn't seem to capture the excitement/flow of the arcade, or the X6800 version, which was practicly the arcade version to a "t"