revdrew This was one of the main reasons I'd play this as a kid. Now, someone needs to put up the opening/game over screens for Tecmo Knight.
Xenocide And Punisher arcade. INSERT COIN TO SUCCEED AT CPR.
Old_Zircon Same here. The game itself was never nearly as fun as the NES version, but this screen alone warranted dropping a few quarters in the cocktail machine at the sub shop.
Caminante Nocturno Sometimes, when I played a game with a game over screen like this one, I'd feel bad for not continuing.
Louis Armstrong I always had a greater urgency to stuff quarters in the machine after seeing this.
revdrew They never should have stopped using this ingenious marketing technique.
PRESS START OR WATCH BOWSER SLOWLY CASTRATE MARIO
Xenocide I remember putting in a quarter just to see how he'd get out of that. They don't show you, they just cut back to the game. This annoyed me so much that I refused to save him the next time I died.