NES

Astyanax

Trivia

The word "Astyanax" comes from the Greek for "Prince of the City", and was originally applied to the Trojan prince Scamandrius, son of Hector and Andromache. Various accounts have him thrown to his death in infancy from the battlements of Troy by Odysseus or Neoptolemus, in an effort to stem the Trojan royal line. (Upon first discovering this game, my eyebrows went up: surely the time isn't yet right for the market to accept a game about flinging babies to their deaths. Then again...)