Bionic Commando - NES Game (Retro Fam)

Here's a quick story. It's rather sad I'm afraid. Not sad as in tearful necessarily, but in a life-changing and tragic kind of way. When I was a kid in the late 80's my mom took me to either Sears or Woolworth in Delaware so we could purchase a video game. At the time I thought Bionic Commando looked kind of cool from the little bit of information I knew about it based on gaming magazines and perhaps even word of mouth. To my surprise the game was actually available so we purchased it, bring it home, I pop it into the NES... and it doesn't work. All that appears is a black screen. I had this same issue with another game at a yard sale called Marble Madness and when I took it back they allowed me to trade it for Robocop. Good trade there, however...Despite doing everything in my power to get Bionic Commando to work that one summer afternoon, it does not. A brand new game popped in the NES but the black screen wouldn't go away no matter how hard I try. When I take it back... I decide to get another game... and the game I get is Yoshi (a puzzle game). No, not Yoshi's Cookie- just Yoshi. A Tetris-like puzzle game. I think this deserves a big "AHHH WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?!" moment! Seriously, Yoshi instead of Bionic Commando? *smacks self really hard*Anyway, it's now a quarter of a century later and I'm getting to know Bionic Commando for real this time. I'm actually rather surprised at a couple things. First I thought the game was more open world than it really is.