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Marvelous: Mohitotsu no Takarajima (1996) was an action adventure by Nintendo for the Super Famicom in Japan. Long ago, the notorious Captain Maverick hid a "Marvelous" treasure. Today, three youths from a summer camp set up on the island will discover the legend! (a pirate and monkeys thread)

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In 1991, Synergistic Software released the action RPG, Conan the Cimmerian, based on Robert E. Howard's titular character. The manual also featured art by Ernesto Chan, a talented artist whose body of work for Marvel included comic book runs featuring the mighty barbarian.

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A 1994 ad for The Elder Scrolls: Arena, an action RPG by Bethesda Softworks for PCs A vast continent became a procedurally generated playground in this incredibly ambitious RPG. Designer, Ted Peterson, recalled in a 2001 interview Wizardry's SirTech "laughing at us for thinking we could do it."

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The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight (1986) by Interplay was a dungeon crawling CRPG for PCs like the Apple II. Would-be-heroes faced six different towns, an open wilderness, new dungeons, new spells, and devious puzzles standing between them and the fabled Destiny Wand. (a wand waving thread)

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A 1990 ad from Japan for Niji no Silkroad, a "business RPG" for the Nintendo Famicom by Advance Communication Company This neat dioarama features our princely hero (in the white turban), their trusty camel (which you can buy in the game to carry more goods), a friendly fairy, and a hired soldier!

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The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight (1986) by Interplay was a dungeon crawling CRPG for PCs like the Apple II. Would-be-heroes faced six different towns, an open wilderness, new dungeons, new spells, and devious puzzles standing between them and the fabled Destiny Wand. (a wand waving thread)

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A double ad from Japan in 1992 for the Sega Mega CD featuring the tactical RPG, Dark Wizard, by Sega and a port of the cyberpunk adventure game, Rise of the Dragon, originally released for PCs by Dynamix Players fought with individual units across Dark Wizard's hex-based maps to save their kingdom!

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AD&D Pool of Radiance (1988) | RPG | PC platforms | SSI PoR marked the start of a legendary dynasty of THAC0 filled quests spanning AD&D's tapestry of worlds as SSI and TSR's collaboration gave players a digital respite in not having to worry about where they left their Crown Royal bag of dice.

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AD&D Pool of Radiance (1988) was a fantasy RPG by SSI released on various PC platforms like the Apple II and Commodore 64. The ruined city of Phlan, located on the shores of the Moonsea, sends out the call for adventurers promising fortune to those who can rid its ruins of monsters! (a smol thread)

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Shining in the Darkness (1991) by Climax for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis was one of the first RPGs for the console and the first in Sega's long-running Shining series. Turn-based combat and first-person dungeon crawling put you on a quest to save the Kingdom of Thornwood! (a legend begins thread)

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A 1992 ad from Japan with an illustration by Takehiko Ito (credited here as Hiroyuki Hataike) for Alisia Dragoon, an action adventure by Game Arts and Gainax for the Sega Mega Drive Gainax, the animation studio known for titles like Neon Genesis Evangelion, supervised the game's story and visuals.

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Mystic Ark (1995) was a fantasy turn-based RPG for the Super Famicom in Japan by Produce!. Captured as a figurine and brought to a mysterious temple with others, a strange voice empowers your escape. Now you must quest through different worlds for mysterious Arks to return home! (a lost ark thread)

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Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday (1990) was a sci-fi, turn-based RPG for MS-DOS, the C64, and Amiga PCs. Taking place in the 25th century, your party will rub shoulders with heroes like Buck Rogers as you travel around the Solar System to stop RAM from turning Earth into a cinder! (a space thread)

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Mystic Ark (1995) was a fantasy turn-based RPG for the Super Famicom in Japan by Produce!. Captured as a figurine and brought to a mysterious temple with others, a strange voice empowers your escape. Now you must quest through different worlds for mysterious Arks to return home! (a lost ark thread)

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When it's time to log off after a dungeon run with a great team. Thanks for the game, everyone!

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Before Might & Magic: Dark Messiah turned your right foot into a monster kicking superstar in 2006, players could kick over "175 characters" as part of the language of friendship (and to start fights or search items!) in Radiata Stories, an RPG for the PlayStation 2 by tri-Ace.

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Slayer (1994) | action RPG | 3DO | Lion Entertainment This exclusive entry for the 3DO platform promised "4 billion dungeons" housing TSR's monster menagerie! It was all thanks to player customization and random floors as a streamlined iteration of the formula used in 1993's Dungeon Hack for PCs.

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Dark Seal II (1992) | beat 'em up with light RPG elements | arcade | Data East This adventure introduced arcade goers to five different characters that they could pick from, isometric action, big bosses, and voiced Saturday morning cartoon-like cuts keeping players company on their heroic quest.

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A pre-release 1999 ad from Japan for Valkyrie Profile on the Sony PlayStation, an RPG by tri-Ace and published by Enix It would also get a North American release in 2000 introducing a new audience to the story of Lenneth (represented here by a model in costume) and her mysterious quest for souls.

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A two page ad for Mystic Ark, an RPG for the Super Famicom by Produce!, from Japan in 1995 The same studio behind The 7th Saga (Elnard in Japan) and Brain Lord created a new adventure featuring a quest spanning seven words. And to find your way home, you must unravel the story within each one!

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The Battle of Olympus (1988) | action adventure with light RPG elements | NES | Infinity In an adventure inspired by Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda II, players quest to rescue their beloved's soul from Hades as a rendition of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor plays when gods greet our hero!

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A 2001 ad for the North American release of Record of Lodoss War, an action RPG for the Sega Dreamcast by Neverland. As an amnesiac warrior brought back from the dead, this Diablo-like, isometric actioner pit you against hordes of monsters in a bid to stop the resurrection of a dark goddess!

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The Battle of Olympus (1988) is an action adventure game with light RPG elements for the Nintendo Entertainment System. As Orpheus (though you can rename the hero!), you set off on a quest to rescue the soul of your beloved stolen by Hades, god of the underworld! (a legendary Olympian thread)

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A 1989 ad from Japan for Cosmic Fantasy, an RPG for the PC Engine CD by LaserSoft Promising an adventure beyond your imagination thanks to the CD-ROM format, Cosmic Fantasy mixes together sci-fi and medieval fantasy in a turn-based adventure. Sharing the page is Red Alert, a run' n gun shooter!

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Kagero: Deception II (1998) | tactical RPG | Sony PlayStation | Tecmo Assigned by your adoptive, immortal mom to protect a castle from dangerous home invaders, you call upon an arsenal of traps to fend them off in this unusual RPG. Answering questions as awkwardly as possible is also a bonus.

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SD Snatcher (1990) | RPG | MSX2 | Konami Being a top-notch JUNKER in Neo Kobe can be dangerous work. Not only will you go up against dangerous machines, but you'll also hunt Snatchers -- mysterious bioroids that emerge in winter, quietly infiltrating society by replacing those they kill.

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Rogue Galaxy (2005) is an action RPG by Level 5 for the Sony PlayStation 2. Jaster Rogue dreams of leaving his desert planet to explore the stars and opportunity knocks when space pirates mistake him for someone else and take him on as a member of their crew! (a planetary privateer thread)

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A 1993 ad from Japan for the Mega CD version of Illusion City, an RPG by Microcabin that debuted on the MSX PC Instead of Blade Runners or Snatchers, players are part of an anti-demon force working in the shadow of a corporate body called SIVA who has rebuilt a ruined Hong Kong in the 21st century!

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Back off man, I'm a scientist. This 1988 ad for Chaosium and West End Games' D6 TTRPG adaptation of the world from 1984's film, Ghostbusters, asked players to "just say 'no' to wimpy roleplaying" and to try something that the designers felt was "The Greatest Thing Since Cheez Whiz".

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Favourite movie that takes place in NYC.

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The Bard's Tale (1985) by Interplay was an iconic CRPG dungeon crawl that debuted on the Apple II and was ported to a wide variety of PCs. Skara Brae reels under the cruel grip of the wizard, Mangar, daring heroes to rise, fight, and crush evil with spell, sword, and song! (a pubgeon crawler thread)

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