19th June 2004, 10:47 AM
Not having those games, only reading about them in Nintendo Power, I didn't use Beat until Megaman 7, where he functioned like fishing lakitu in Mario Kart, basically saving you from bottomless pits.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)