I played a lot of bionic commando as a kid. When I loaded it up in an emulator in the early 2000's it was way harder than I rememberd. Then I realized there was an emulation bug where the enemies didn't disappear when you blew up the base, but Ladd still froze; that meant I needed roughly 2 extra life points when clearing a level. Just to see if I could, I did beat it that way once, but never again.