>>57916253If it makes you feel even better, here are a few things that make this game as hard (and bad) as it is (taken from Crappy Video Games Wiki):
1. One hit and the player dies, also the player only gets three lives.
2. None of the levels have checkpoints.
3. The same bland eight-second song plays endlessly in each level except for boss fights or when you've picked up a specific power-up.
4. The enemies have a huge advantage over you. They can camouflage themselves in the background, as well as shoot and pass through solid platforms and they can take multiple hits before they die.
5. Flashing screens that cause seizures.
6. Misleading Title: Despite the game being titled "Mystery of Convoy, Optimus Prime doesn't appear in the game at all.
7. The enemies are small, move very fast, and in irregular patterns as well as coming out of nowhere.
8. The title "Mystery of Convoy" on the cover art is misspelled as "Mystery of Comvoy".
9. The player's projectiles cannot pass through solid platforms, making you defenseless.
10. The game has poor hit detection. The player can get killed if enemy projectiles get anywhere near your perimeter. In addition, your targeting must be dead center, or else your bullet will pass through the enemy.
11. The boss fights are too easy as they move up and down and shoot one projectile at a time.
12. Extremely lazy boss design. Three of the bosses are the Decepticon insignia with different colors and twice the player must fight a planet that doesn't resemble Unicron.
13. In Stage 9, if the player does not collect the key and follows the stage on a certain path, the stage will loop over and over. The game does not explain what you're supposed to do unless you find a guide. In addition, the route that needs to be taken is much more difficult than just advancing through the level normally.
14. The difficulty in the game is inconsistent between levels.
15. Though you can transform into the game, it is suicide. Despite the fact you can shoot in vehicle mode as well as pass through narrow spots, you're left open for attacks.
16. The game has to be completed twice to see the ending. At first, you play as Ultra Magnus and once you beat the game and collect all the hidden letters that spell "Rodimus", you must play through the whole game again as Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime (no difference in gameplay other than your vehicle sprite being different).
16. Your reward for beating the whole game twice is a single screen of text with one word: "Congratulation!"
17. Extremely lazy stage design. Stages 1 and 7 are the exact same level but palette-swapped and the final level is Stage 6 in reverse.
18. To make up for how unfairly hard the game is you have unlimited continues, however, you have to use a cheat code at the game over screen to continue (hold A+B+Start).
19. One of the power-ups serves no purpose. Even worse, it cancels all power-ups you've gathered upon collecting.
20. Fake difficulty: The bullets are hard to see due to the bright backgrounds. And the fact that they're small only makes this worse.
Bonus: AVGN video on this game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km9vYa2GIUI 
