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Blue's Journey

Released in 1990 by Alpha Denshi. I haven't played much of this - I just have vivid memories of it showing up on Neo-Geo machines at McDonald's restaurants across the country when I was a child, along with (I think) King of Monsters and a few other games. Always overpriced, and the first time I did get to play it I lost all my lives before getting too far into level 1. But I was always captured by the bizarre fantasy world where leaves seemed to be the ultimate object of power, and the apparent versatility of the protagonist with more actions available than a Mario game.