Game TitleAstyanaxRelease Date1990-03-08ESRB RatingE - Everyone Astyanax is a side scrolling platform game The controls are fairly simple the A Button makes Astyanax jump the B Button will attack with an axe called Bash and a combination of up and attack will perform a special magic attack The game also contains a few role playing elements such as weapons upgrades It had a unique feature for the time of a bar that grows between attacks the length of the bar determines how much damage Astyanax will do with his next attack If one attacks rapidly one s hits will do little damage much unlike most games where a rapid succession of hits would all be equally damaging A very similar system would be used in Secret of Mana some years later Game details and screenshots provided by www.TheGamesDB.net