Rare made a name for themselves on the NES with completely awesome games like Solar Jetman, Cobra Triangle, and Battletoads, as well as unfortunate stuff like Beetlejuice and Taboo: the Sixth Sense. But of their numerous NES games, perhaps the best is a simple action-platformer about a guy in thick armor who kicks open treasure chests in order to bribe knights.Wizards & Warriors follows Kuros, a knight of the derivatively-named kingdom of Elrond, as he rescues a series of identical maidens (with names like "Grizelda") strung up in caves. On the way, he fights giant bats, ghosts, stationary birds, animate rocks, and various other nuisances. His journey takes him from a forest, to a cave, to another cave, to a few more caves, to a cave inside a tree, to a (cavernous) castle.
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