Oh I remember those. They were insanely hard and I could never get very far at all without entering the secret passwords to get to later levels. Actually I don't think it was even possible without the passwords.

I wish they would put the original SNES Star Fox on virtual console. That too is very hard but it had much better music than any of the later Star Fox games.

Funny seeing Twilight Princess mentioned here, as I'm in the middle of playing through it a second time. Sort of hesitant to finish it because of the sad ending. I enjoy using the Wii remote, but it's true that having to go through batteries is annoying.