Rocket Knight is great, would be a great inclusion. You always wonder why they never chase porting it, but hey, Konami. They did have that Climax re-do a while back, but the reviews were so middling I never even bothered.
https://imgur.com/uDA1jYwTotally agree that back in the day we would kinda live with bad games, adjust to jank, whatever.
https://imgur.com/MtmhPjN That said, being a nerd I generally knew what was supposed to be bad, but there were multiple occasions where (usually licensed) garbage would come out and sucker wide swathes of either the kids or their parents, and
there went several weeks/months gaming budget. TMNT NES was such hot trash, that game somehow diminished multiple weekends for young me cause I couldn't get away from it. Everyone I knew had it, and everyone was stuck at like the exact same sewer part.
The Sunsoft Batman game was the same way, ET didn't teach the industry squat.
*edit* not sure why image broke.