Pretty sure I encountered that same beagle last week. Had a pair of chocolate cookies in my bag that he/she zeroed in on right after being pulled away from a box of chocolates. I was charmed and only moderately scared I would be accused of smuggling drugs.

Wait, I'm confused, the SNES was not released until 1990; 1986 was still pretty early in the NES reign.

Absolutely not, they’re big guys but very explosive.

As with most Republican claims, there's an element of projection here. There is, in fact, a party that continually allows children to be murdered for political gain, but it's not the Democrats.