Dragon Buster

Dragon Buster is an arcade platformer with action RPG elements from 1984 and the first game to feature a double jump. It was also one of the first games to feature a life meter (along with Flash Boy and Punch-Out), referred to in this game as Vitality. The game featured side-scrolling platform gameplay and a "world view" map similar to the later Super Mario Bros. It also featured hack & slash combat, like the later Tritorn and Legend of Zelda series. Dragon Buster was developed and published by Namco. The game is a side-scrolling dungeon crawler in which the hero Clovis has to rescue Princess Celia. Dragon Buster was later ported to a number of home consoles, most notably the Nintendo Entertainment System and the MSX. It runs on the Namco Pac-Land hardware, which has been modified to support vertical scrolling.