Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II — The Late Sequel
A 1994 follow-up that arrived as the NES era closed.
Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (1994) brought back Mike Jones for a time-traveling adventure, hurling him across history to collect magic tablets and face the returning villain Zoda.
By 1994 the NES was well past its prime (the SNES had long since taken over), so this sequel arrived quietly, a late entry many players missed entirely. That makes it a neat curio: a polished continuation of the cult original, released almost out of time.
It keeps the top-down action-adventure feel of the first game while sending Mike everywhere from ancient Egypt to the Wild West. A charming, overlooked footnote to the NES story.