* AdaptationDisplacement: It was originally released for the Japan-only Sharp X68000.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[https://twitter.com/Setzeri/status/1221124977489076226 This comic]] attempts to reconcile the infamous SNES box art with the actual game.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The "Advertise Zone". It's an AsteroidThicket with advertising signs all over the first half of the stage!
* DancingBear: Many people have only heard of this game because of its ludicrous cover.
* GoddamnedBats: The enemies that attack the player from behind in the seventh stage. Hope you have the laser, which can attack behind your character...
* HilariousInHindsight: Over two decades later came ''Videogame/OuterWilds'', a space-exploration game which prominently features an astronaut playing the banjo.
* NeverLiveItDown: The game is most infamous for [[CoversAlwaysLie its box art featuring the completely irrelevant banjo player]].
* OneSceneWonder: Again, the old banjo player who only shows up in the cover and nowhere else. He's arguably more famous than the game itself.
* {{Squick}}: Many of the organic bosses- for example, the MiniBoss of the fourth level is a brain that shoots worms from its head...

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