Dream Master (or Little Nemo: The Dream Master if you're outside Japan) is one of those weird, charming NES platformers that sticks with you. You play as Nemo, a kid who keeps getting dragged into Slumberland—this trippy dream world where frogs wear crowns, mushrooms bounce you halfway across the screen, and candy rains from the sky. The whole thing feels like playing through someone’s actual fever dream.

The gimmick? You tame animals by feeding them candy (obviously), and each one gives you different abilities. The frog jumps stupidly high, the gorilla smashes through walls—my personal favorite’s the mole that digs underground like some kind of sleep-deprived bulldozer. The levels get progressively weirder, from candy forests to a train that’s also a giant lizard. Capcom nailed that "kid lost in a dream" vibe where nothing makes sense but somehow works.

Fair warning: It’s tougher than it looks, especially when the screen starts filling up with nightmare clowns or whatever. Still, the music’s fantastic, the art’s got this storybook charm, and honestly? Riding a bee through a pastel nightmare is worth the occasional rage-quit.