Mrs. Beanbag: Great work on Mr. Beanbag, people. Just do it whatever way you care, it's a great development on the Amiga scene, perhaps one of the two only serious game developments of late for the classic Amiga (being Tracker HEro the other one).
If you want unlimited continues , go ahead and make it so
Perhaps you can design some impossible-to-finish levels too, to stuck in the naysayers