# Name That Nintendo Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-nintendo-game/336235 "2005-12-19T02:04:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-nintendo-game/336235/1 "2005-12-19T02:04:04Z")
When I was a kid, I played this game on my friend’s NES a few times. At the beginning, you are looking at the interior of a small house, with a family and their pet looking back at you. You pick one of them to be the character you will play as for a while. You can come back later in the game and pick a different character to continue as. The family included a Dad, a mom, a son, a pet, and a grandpa. (I don’t think there was a sister, though maybe there was.) Each had differing characteristics. I think the two ways they were different from each other was in the range of their attack and the length of their jump. The pet was a little pink baby dragon-y thing, or at least some kind of pink thing with a tail. You couldn’t play as the grandpa–he just gave you codes to save your game. The game was a sort of platformer/dungeon crawl combo. It’s hard to explain. At one place in the game, there was this big tapestry of a dragon. For some reason I had the notion that an idea in the game was to get the dragon to come to life and then to kill it. But I don’t know why I thought that. Does this sound familiar to anyone? What’s the name of the game? -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-nintendo-game/336235/2 "2005-12-19T03:49:59Z")
That’d be _Legacy of the Wizard_. Great game, good music, hard as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-nintendo-game/336235/3 "2005-12-19T04:05:48Z")
Donkey Kong.