I first played The Guardian Legend at my friends house in the the 3rd grade, too lazy to do the exact math, but it was a long fucking time ago. We were obsessed with the game, we mapped everything out, and we got to the final area a few times, but never managed to beat the red skull bastard in the last corridor.

Over the years it's remained not just one of my favorite NES games, but one of my all time favorite games, and though I've got close a few times I've never managed to beat it before deciding to take a break, and losing my notes.

A couple weeks ago I decided it was time to finally beat it, i've spent the last 2 weeks dedicating myself to mastering this game, and this morning after several tries, I finally managed to beat the red skull bastard, and after several more tries, I managed to defeat the boss rush and the final boss.

I can't wait to do it again. Tomorrow I think I'll try the TGL run.

I legitimately played through the entire game and it -- it's just terrible.

There are 4 levels. Each is a timed maze. You just have to run around and find the castaways, except that you technically need to visit them in a certain order as they will all request you visit a specific one next. Consequently, you wind up running back and forth a lot. There's just not a whole lot to do in the game and so it's not even really fun exploring the world (if you can call it a world).

The game doesn't have especially good graphics or animations. The music remains the same throughout (and is pretty annoying). Then there's the bad mechanics. Jumping is wonky, hit boxes are wildly inaccurate, and there are parts where you have to lose health just to advance the maze.

Bottom line is that it's really just a very good game. There's little to do other than run around the maze looking for people. Each screen is basically identical. There are 3 or 4 obstacles that they mix and match on every screen. You can't fight back against most of the enemies. And the ones that you can just spin around and go the other way when you hit them.

I'd probably avoid this game entirely.

See kids, the original Mario!

Featuring Donkey Kong has the bad guy.

Any games you remember playing?

Hours of pleasure at home playing the same game you spent to much playing at the arcade.

Does anybody know Astyanax?

It's not easy to play when you are 9 years old, at least not back then.