Play the original Japanese release, Akumajou Densetsu. The Famicom version has some truly fantastic 8-bit music & graphical effects not in the western release. Unfortunately this wasn't possible in the international version due to a custom chip in the Famicom cartridge not available for the NES. Moreover the NES version adds some classic late 80's/early 90's Nintendo censorship (low-detail, nude pixel statues were too risqué for the time). You'll find the Famicom version to be one of the best 8-bit action platformers.

This is the game where the Rabbids used Rayman's legacy as cover to infiltrate our lives with a pretty pedestrian minigame collection and then somehow leveraged that into being an increasingly grating cultural powerhouse for the next decade.

Are Rabbids' responsible for the Minions? it's a tempting theory but I think that the primordial ooze from which Rabbids and Minions emerged from has existed in French culture for decades waiting to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world. it's unclear why the time for their arrival was ripe in the mid to late 2000's. I think we were all just rightfully embarrassed by the whole Freedom Fries debacle and willing to hear them out while they shared their findings after meditating on the works of Jerry Lewis for fifty years.