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** Which is incredibly funny when all the people playing it don't care at all about it, and just stand around waiting to be killed in order for someone to smooch the princess and end the level.

* Pretty much all the classic (1989-1994) ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' games have you rescue April, though only the first and third Game Boy ones have you save her at the end of the game.

* ''[[Kung Fu Master]]'': "Save Sylvia from Mr. X!"

* ''[[Kung-Fu Master]]'': "Save Sylvia from Mr. X!"

* In ''[[Vigilante (video game)|Vigilante]]'', you had to rescue your girlfriend Madonna (not [[Madonna|that Madonna]]).

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== [[Platform Game]] ==

* The original ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' and ''3'' both have this plot, as does the Japanese version of ''2'' (''The Lost Levels''), ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'', ''[[Super Mario 64]]'', the first half of ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'', the second half of ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'', ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'', the ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'' games (excluding ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', where Peach is a playable character), ''and'' ''[[New Super Mario Bros]]''. Bowser must really dig Peach...

* The original ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' and ''3'' both have this plot, as does the Japanese version of ''2'' (''The Lost Levels''), ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'', ''[[Super Mario 64]]'', the first half of ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'', the second half of ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'', ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'', the ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'' games (excluding ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', where Peach is a playable character), ''and'' ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]''. Bowser must really dig Peach...

** In fact, the plans of pretty much ''every villain in the Mario universe'' always involve kidnapping Peach at some point. In fact, in some games she's even somewhat of a [[Barrier Maiden]]. In ''Superstar Saga'', her voice can awaken the Beanstar (the [[MacGuffin]] of the game), while in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' she is forced to wed Bowser in order to bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It]].

** At the very beginning of the Mario franchise, Pauline in ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', who gets kidnapped again in the [[Game Boy]] version and in most ''[[Mario vs. Donkey Kong]]'' games.

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* The ''[[Clonk]]'' level "Dragon Rock" plays this [[Excuse Plot|unashamedly straight]], right down to the evil mage-with-a-dragon doing the kidnapping. In "Tower of Despair" it's the king, and the dragon itself is the capturer, but otherwise it's pretty much the same.

* ''[[Ghosts 'n Goblins|Ghosts N Goblins]]'' and its sequels begin by showing Princess Prin-Prin getting kidnapped by some horrible demon.

* In ''[[Jackie ~~Chans~~ Action Kung Fu]]'', Jackie has to rescue Josephine, who is either his twin sister or his girlfriend, from an [[Evil Sorcerer]] who abducts her in a ''[[Ghosts 'n Goblins|Ghosts N Goblins]]''-like opening scene.

* In ''[[Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu]]'', Jackie has to rescue Josephine, who is either his twin sister or his girlfriend, from an [[Evil Sorcerer]] who abducts her in a ''[[Ghosts 'n Goblins|Ghosts N Goblins]]''-like opening scene.

* ''Crusader'', an obscure [[Platform Game]] by [[Compile]] for the [[MSX]], is the source of the quote: "Princess has been kidnapped! You must save princess."

* In ''[[A Boy and His Blob]] in: The Rescue of Princess Blobette'', you [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|have to rescue Princess Blobette]].

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== [[Role Playing Game]] ==

== [[Role-Playing Game]] ==

* The first ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' essentially has only two objectives: Save the Princess, and kill the Dragonlord. Unlike most Save the Princess games, however, you actually rescue the princess from a dragon (usually the first one you kill) in the Marsh Cave long before you beat the [[Big Bad]].

* Your ''very first'' objective in ''[[Final Fantasy I]]'' is to rescue Princess Sara of Coneria/[[Spell My Name with an "S"|Cornelia]]/[[8-Bit Theater|Corneria]], who has been taken by good-knight-gone-bad Garland.

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