Takamaru

Takamaru is the Protagonist of the FDS game The Mysterious Murasame Castle/謎の村雨城 ''Nazo no Murasame Jō. ''Takamaru is Nintendo's first samurai and one of the many forgotten characters of Nintendo and has made cameos after his game's release

Appearances in games
The Mysterious Murasame Castle: this was Takamaru's first appearance as the story goes In Edo period Japan, Murasame Castle houses a gigantic stone statue known as Murasame. The people lived peacefully until one stormy night, when a shining golden object fell onto the castle from the sky. Deafening shrieks arose from the castle, and the shining object is later revealed to be an alien creature who gives life to the stone statue Murasame and takes over the castle. The alien creature extends its power to four other neighboring castles, giving the daimyo lords each an evil sphere of power. The lords are taken over by the alien's evil power, and use the spheres to summon ninja armies and monsters to attack villagers. Hearing of these strange occurrences, the shogunate led by Tokugawa Ietsuna sends Takamaru, a samurai apprentice, on a secret mission to investigate the castle. As Takamaru, the player must infiltrate the four castles to defeat each castle lord, before going on to face the alien entity itself. in the game Takamaru can use Thowing knifes,Windmill blades,Fireballs,A Samurai helmet that can make you invisible,a invisibility cloak and Thunder that can kill enemies on screen. after this game he began to make cameos

Pikmin: Takamaru himself did not appear in Pikmin but his game did as the Cosmic Archive

Captain Rainbow: He appeared in this game along with other forgotten nintendo characters, Takamaru is one of the supporting character.

Super Smash Bros games: he was considered as a fighter for Melee and SMB4 but was cut due to low popularity. his game had music in brawl called Nazo no Murasamejo - Douchuumen and a sticker of him and in SMB4 he appeared as a assist trophy voiced by Tomokazu Sugita,when summoned, he uses his signature Multidirectional Pinwheel Knife Rook Attack and had a melody version of his games music in SMB4 in the duck hunt stage possibly meaning Duck hunt replaced him as a character, his clothing was a DLC for Sword Mii fighters

Warioware D.I.Y.: in this game he is playable in a microgame where you have to turn invisible to dodge Thowing stars