I worked on this game in yr 2002 and it was supposed to be a clone of whole kidicarus game, pretty big project after all. I didnt finish it but I also never had the intention to since this game is to test DirectDraw and C++ together. I also made a pretty good mapeditor which made it very easy and fast to build the maps.
Since its a clone, the graphics is ripped from the original.
The very beginning:

The end of first level:

There isnt so much more to tell than I enjoyed it and DirectDraw so I made a another game with the api.