Yep. The prices are too high for old games. There are no options to make the screen fullscreen either. The way I play these old games is with an R4 card and an NES emulator on my NDS XL. That's the way to go.

I don't really think $10 bucks for some of the best,biggest, highest rated games of all time is that bad. Its funny because I picked Zelda, Majoras Mask up and have been playing if for the first time in 11 years, and have really gotten into it. I have spent like 25 hours in the past month on a 12 year old game,and have enjoyed it more than I would have thought, as I downloaded it for the nostalgia of it. Even if I quit playing now I got my $10 bucks out of it. I had forgotten how big, and challenging that game is. Before a download check out the reviews, if the game is a freaking 9.0 or above, you have not played it, and you are interested in it, why not sink the little bit of cash into it. I have wasted more money on ringtones and apps.

I still have this game my mother bought it for me on my birthday along with Killer Instinct.

1. Animation is better than 99,99% of sidescrolled platform games released in 2020-2024
Just look at the shitty, clunky and downright amateur animations in games being made now.
2. Graphics still look better on CRT or 4K TV via retrotink or proper CRT filter, compared to 90% platform games released in 2024. It has a nice style. It was one of its kind. Now 99% of indie games in the genre look the same, generic, ugly, infantile, sterile, "paper like" or with "realistic" vibe which only makes things dull, washed out and ugly.
3. The gameplay and polish is on a different level.
4. We don't even have clear motion in gaming anymore. You can see HIGHER RESOLUTION of the image in this 30 year old game than when you play new shit on 4K TV without BFI/backlight strobing
5. The game doesn't put me off with infantile design. This game was for everyone, with respect to male adult gamers, unlike it is now, where we get a big middle finger.
6. Music. I don't think I even need to type anything here. Modern games will either give you generic crap, or some melanholic sad pianos or japaneese pop vibes (to the delight of the John from Digital Foundry ;) )

And lastly:
Let me just remind you: This game ran on a console equipped with 256KB of RAM.

I remember seeing DKC advertisement (or was it just gamplay being showd on some gaming related TV progam? Not sure) on TV in 1994. I was blown away. I couldn't believe my eyes and I wanted this game so badly.
30 years later I want games ON THIS LEVEL as badly as I wanted to play DKC back then. But back then, I only needed a few years until emulators showed up (My country didn't have Nintendo distribution in SNES times). This time I'm waiting more already.

Highest quality side scrolled platform game genre regressed so badly. :(
There's like 1 very good game per 3-5 years, if you don't like infantilism, stealth and sad/horror games. Or anime, like what they did to Prince of Persia in its newest side scrolled installment (God.. whyy....:( )