The Magic of Scheherazade

source: wikidata1987 video game

source: wikipedia_enThe Magic of Scheherazade is an action-adventure/role-playing video game (RPG) developed and released by Culture Brain for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The game was released in 1987 in Japan and 1990 in North America. The plot is based on Middle Eastern folktales from One Thousand and One Nights. It involves an amnesic hero traveling through time in an attempt to rescue the princess Scheherazade from the evil wizard Sabaron, who has summoned a horde of demons to bring chaos to the once peaceful land of Arabia. The Magic of Scheherazade is divided into chapters and incorporates elements of both action-adventure and RPG gameplay styles. In each chapter, the player character can freely explore an overworld in a top-down perspective. The player engages hostile enemies with various weapons and spells through both real-time solo action on the overhead map and random, turn-based battles fought alongside befriended allies. Once the commercial viability of the NES was proven in North America by the late 1980s, Japanese developer Culture Brain opened a company branch in the United States and chose to publish an English-language version of The Magic of Scheherazade after making se

source: romuアラビアンナイトを題材にしたアクションRPG。コナミの隠れた名作。

source: wikipedia_ja『アラビアンドリーム シェラザード』 (Arabian Dream Scheherazade) は、1987年9月3日にカルチャーブレーンから発売されたアクションRPGで、北米では『The Magic of Scheherazade』というタイトルで1989年12月に発売された。