Toki on the NES is one of those weird, charming platformers where you play as a guy who gets turned into a monkey—and now you spit at everything to survive. The arcade roots show in the fast-paced, sometimes brutal level design, jumping between jungles, icy cliffs, and underwater sections where the controls get a little slippery.

Your main attack is spitting (yes, really), but you can grab power-ups to shoot fireballs or weird bouncing projectiles. The upgrades help, because some enemies take way too many hits otherwise. The volcano levels are especially chaotic, with lava pits and these annoying bat things that dive at you.

It’s janky in that classic NES way—hit detection can be iffy, and the difficulty spikes hard in later stages. But there’s something oddly satisfying about bouncing on enemies or spitting fire at a boss while the chiptune music blares. Just don’t expect a deep story—you’re a monkey, you spit, you rescue the girl. That’s the whole pitch.