I feel bad to admit this but, I don't like 2d games. It's just a short thing though. Last year i spent 9 strait hours playing Atari 2600. 3 hours of E.T.(oddly my favorite Atari game). I spent over 150 bucks in getting the commodore with disc drive and flight simulatore, It burned up in one week too. =(

Anyway have you messed with assembly code yet?