IGN: Contra 4 Review

IGN: Contra 4 Review:"That's right. Other than high scores and unlockables, the cartridge doesn't save progress. Lose your last life at an end boss? A continue will send you back to the start of that level and make you fight your way through it again. If you lose all your lives and continues on Level Four, guess what? You're all the way back to Level One. This, my friends, is the ultimate bulletpoint in Old-School game design, like it or lump it, and it's the element that's going to keep you from rushing through to the end in your first night with the cartridge."