I played this game mainly because I wanted to see if the "30 hits to kill the first dudes" bit in the 5 SNES games in Hell article was true, and it's true, it takes around 30 normal hits to kill them, but holding down L and pressing the attack button makes you do an uppercut which is about 10 times stronger, because it puts down the enemies in 3 hits. Also, L + A does a rolling move that takes two ticks off your life bar. Also, you can pick up weapons in the background, although it's hard to notice you can pick them up. I've only been able to throw a baseball once and I don't remember how I did it.

Still doesn't mean you should play this game though, it's a piece of crap.

EDIT: I masochisticly trekked to the second half of the second level - it seems as though each level is split into two parts where if you die, you get taken back to the beginning of the FIRST part, which is extremely annoying. Anyway, the second half of the second level is a haunted house door maze, where the only clue you're going the right way is a temperature gauge at the top of the screen. It gives you a time limit, enemies that are tough to dodge, AND to top it off the doors and bookcases don't even work half the time at random. My warning above still stands.