1) Bonk's Adventure (NES)
2) Little Samson
3) Holy Diver
4) Holy Diver (legit!)
5) Mitsume Ga Tooru
I've been on a strong NES kick on account of getting my EverDrive in to play with. This seems to mirror with last year, with a lot of NES gaming to start the year. And with Holy Diver, taking on something brutally hard... but whatever! Cleansing the palate with something a bit easier is a good thing.
So yeah, Mitsume Ga Tooru is apparently based on an Osamu Tezuka's manga/anime. The nice thing about this one is that it's programmed by Natsume, and it's one of their later efforts, to boot. While it certainly plays differently from games like Shatterhand and Shadow of the Ninja, it's still got that Natsume feel to it. It's ultra-solid, with excellent music and graphics, and play control that has just a tiny touch of momentum while still feeling really responsive.
I played this many, many years ago when the patch first dropped, and it definitely became one of my favorite games that we never got. Picking it up all these years later, I'm quite happy that it both plays just as well as I remembered, and that it wasn't incredibly hard without using save states, which is something I did the last time I went through.
Anyway, if you want a nice NES platformer that you might not have tried, give this one a go!