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As Jay worked on the project, he realized the terrorists were still out there and even more determined to destroy the SSS colony plan. Jay then vows, "I have no choice but to fight the terrorists to defend the colony development and to avenge my father's death."

Sunsoft's Journey To Silius began its life as a Terminator game, but when Sunsoft lost the Terminator license, they turned the nearly finished game into JtS. Jay's quest to avenge his father's murder proved to be one of the better NES games that Sunsoft released - however, it never received the kind of high-profile attention it deserved. Sunsoft never saw fit to sequelize JtS, and as such Jay never reappeared.

Bayou Billy. Raised by a family of gators, you've grown into a legend. You're a regular swamp superhero and all the southern belles love your brute strength and Cajun charm. Of course, your heart is reserved for only one belle.

The Adventures Of Bayou Billy was Konami's attempt at merging three entirely different game genres: fighting, driving and shooting. Unfortunately, the end result was less than stellar. Still, Konami hyped the game to no end, even going as far as to sign a deal with Archie Comics to create a Bayou Billy comic book (which was very shortlived, as it turns out). After everything was over, though, Konami made no attempt to continue the franchise. No plans to revive Bayou Billy have been made.

To save Eden and rescue LALA, Prince LOLO went to the Devil's Haunted Castle. LOLO is not blessed with strength or agility but possesses great courage, high IQ and a lot of patience. Can LOLO save LALA after solving an almost endless series of mazes?

The Adventures Of Lolo was one of the most addictive puzzle games ever made, imo. It and its two sequels are widely considered to be some of the best puzzle games for the NES, and for a time Lolo was HAL's mascot - at least until Kirby came along. Unfortunately, the series - and Lolo's adventures - ended with the last game in the series, and to date HAL has announced no plans to bring Lolo back.

Peter Pepper the chef moves around the screen walking over the parts of a hamburger. As each item is walked over it drops to the level below. Armed with pepper he can throw on his enemies, he must avoid the Food Foes - Mr. Hotdog, Mr. Egg, and Mr. Pickle.

Burgertime was one of the great classics from the first wave of video games. Its hero, Peter Pepper, tirelessly tried to create burgers while avoiding the Food Foes. Burgertime ended up being so successful that several sequels and spinoffs were created; however, after the release of Super Burgertime and Burgertime Deluxe in the early '90s, Peter Pepper vanished, only showing up again when the original Burgertime was rereleased as part of the William’s Arcade’s Greatest Hits Volume 2 disc for the PlayStation in 1997. He hasn't been seen since.

Hiromi must pass her final test to graduate from the Space University.

Burning Force was Namco's answer to Sega's Space Harrier - however, unlike Harrier, there were additional weapons and powerups to be had, as well as two different types of vehicles to pilot - a hoverbike and a jet. On top of that, the heroine of the game, Hiromi, was a blue haired anime chick (that looked a lot like Yuko from Valis) instead of your usual macho space pilot. At the end of the game, Hiromi graduated and headed off into space to go on a new adventure. You'd think that there would have been a sequel in the works, but Namco never did anything with Hiromi again.

Mr Do! is a clown who moves around a maze. You can dig new paths to avoid monsters and collect cherries. Kill monsters with a 'powerball' or drop apples on them. Kill them all or eat all the cherries to go up a level.

The original Mr. Do!, while seeming at first like a clone of Namco's Dig Dug on the surface, actually had a bit more strategy involved than its more famous competitor. Rather than just destroying all of the enemies in one area, you actually had to fight an Alphamonster and its henchmen to clear a board. On top of that, you also could build traps to kill the monsters, as well as using the Powerball agianst them. After numerous sequels, Mr. Do! made one last appearance on the SNES sometime in the mid-1990s. He has not been seen since.

Pengo the penguin is trapped in a maze of ice-blocks. Slide the blocks to squash the Sno-Bees chasing you or electrocute them by trapping them along a wall.

Pengo was one of Sega's earliest recognizable characters. Years before Sonic The Hedgehog was a household name, arcade gamers were guiding Pengo in his quest to destroy the Snow-Bees. The style of gameplay in Pengo inspired several games that came along later, including Capcom's Pirate Ship Higemaru and Irem's Kickle Cubicle. Aside from a cameo in the game Up'n Down, though, Pengo has not been seen in any other games.

Moonlight's father has just been murdered right before his very eyes. So, he does what other ninjas seem to do in these types of situations - he seeks revenge against the culprit.

While more people are probably familiar with the Turbografx-16 incarnation of Ninja Spirit, the game was released in arcades first sometime in 1988. The hero, Moonlight, could get shadow ninjas to follow him and mimic his every move (a trick later used in the NES game Ninja Gaiden II) on his quest to avenge his father's death. Unfortunately, Irem never saw fit to create a sequel to Ninja Spirit, and Moonlight soon faded from memory.

Jinborov Karnovski, also known as Karnov, is a fire-breathing Russian who is a former circus strongman. His quest is to find the lost treasure of Creamina by collecting pieces of the map which lead to it at the end of each stage.

Most gamers were familiar with Karnov because of the NES port - which, while a decent game, was infamous for its absolutely stupid ending (all it said was "CONGRATULATIONS THE END" on a completely black background). While there was never a direct sequel to the original Karnov, Karnov himself turned up in the game Bad Dudes, as the boss of stage one, and was the final boss of the one-on-one fighter Karnov's Revenge, which itself was the sequel to the arcade game Fighter's History. Why that was the case, we may never know. Since then, Karnov has yet to resurface in any other games.

The heroic prince Gilgamesh (Gil) must attempt to rescue the maiden Ki from the demon Druaga.

The original The Tower Of Druaga arcade game was a huge hit in Japan. It was certainly popular enough to warrant a sequel, which came along in 1986 under the name of The Return Of Ishtar. Ishtar actually picked up right where the first game left off, and this time two players could play - one as Gil, the other as Ki. Interestingly enough, Ishtar also gave players a password to pick up where they left off the next time they played - undoubtedly one of the first arcade games to do so. Several ports of the original Druaga were made (including a version for the Super Famicom sometime in 1994). Despite Gil and Ki's rampant popularity among Japanese players (the two games were all but unknown in the U.S. until Namco released the Namco Museum series for the PlayStation in the mid-90s), no further Druaga games were ever made.