Ardy Lightfoot

• Title — Ardy Lightfoot • Developer — ASCII Corporation • Director — Masami Yamamoto • Producer — Takeshi Kaneda • Designer — Noburo Wada • Programmer — Takumi Inoue • Artist — Takashi Tory • Writer — Ichirō Sugiyama • Composer — Akiko Hashimoto Katsuhiro Hatano • Platforms — Super Nintendo Entertainment System • Genre — Platform • Modes — Single-player

• Illustration — Ardy and Pec go to the Mining Town Ablaze, the first level. The game controls anthropomorphic title character ferret Ardy and his friend, a blue creature named Pec. Pec is able to transform, taking on forms such as a weapon, a red hot air balloon, or a rock wall destroyer. These forms allow Pec to be used both for combat and for solving environmental puzzles. If Ardy is hit by an enemy, Pec dissolves and can only be retrieved by finding a treasure chest. Without Pec, Ardy is still able to attack by bouncing on his own tail. He can also protect himself temporarily by hiding behind a clear mirror.

section The sacred rainbow has shattered into seven crystal pieces, and it is up to Ardy to obtain them all. Whoever collects all seven crystal pieces will receive a wish. The evil King Visconti has already gotten one crystal piece, and he is searching for the other pieces. To this end, he sends out his followers, including Beecroft, Catry and many others. Ardy is assisted by friends along the way, like the unnamed elder, Nina, and a mysterious adventurer named Don Jacoby. Although the ending screen says "To be continued", no sequel was ever made.

When Titus published Ardy Lightfoot for North American audiences, several changes were introduced. These included numerous sprites, such as Ardy's "waiting" pose, being removed; tied up and crying animals being removed from the background on the forest level; and in level 6, "Eaten!", Catry's gruesome death by acid was written out of the plot; instead of being reduced to a pile of bones, she is merely knocked unconscious.