Woody Poko NES / Famicom

Woody Poko is a side-scrolling action adventure by dB-SOFT, first released on the PC-8801 in 1986 and ported to the Famicom in Japan in 1987 with reworked stages, faster movement and jumping. Poko, a wooden puppet who had been given life, is turned back into a doll and sets out to become human again, earning money from defeated enemies to buy weapons, eating to keep his strength up, and living through day and night and the four seasons. It was never released outside Japan.