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Game » consists of 12 releases. Released Jun 21, 1987
A puzzle-focused ARPG.
An 8-bit RPG on the NES developed by Game Arts and published by Nexoft. The player controls a female warrior out on a quest.
An action RPG developed for the PC-98 by Lawins, a production team led by Hiromasa Miyoshi, in collaboration with Tierheit.
A top-down, action RPG developed by Zoom. In it, players guide the hero, Nasir, on his quest to restore the purity of Lakeland's water.
A top-down action RPG created by Tokihiro Naito for Japanese computers.
A real-time, dungeon-crawler, action RPG, and the first game in the Xak series from Micro Cabin. It was released for various systems between 1989 and 1993, but was not officially localized into English until a considerable amount of time later.
A PC Engine Action-RPG based on the famous Japanese novel series Nansou Satomi Hakkenden. The gameplay is at least partly inspired by Falcom's Ys series.
An adventure game developed by Enix that follows the stories of Shion and Lisa Lisa in a small village town.
An action RPG developed by Telenet Japan and released in 1988, it is the first part of the XZR/Exile trilogy. The game was controversial for its references to religion, politics, and drugs. Unlike its sequels, XZR was never released outside of Japan.
An action RPG for the Famicom Disk System and MSX, developed by Pack-In-Video. It was never released outside of Japan.
An early JRPG developed by Systemsoft for the NES. It was never released outside of Japan.
Times of Lore is a top-down RPG that casts the player in the role of an unknown adventurer seeking fame and fortune. Starting out as a story told to children, the player will take this adventurer into a quest that will help save a kingdom.
The third game in T&E Soft's Hydlide series of action RPGs, released on various home computers and consoles. Originally released in 1987, a graphically enhanced version was released in 1989, called Super Hydlide on the Mega Drive / Genesis console and Hydlide 3: Special Version on computers.
An RPG developed by Xtalsoft and published by Square. It was available for the Famicom Disk System and never released outside of Japan.
Gandhara (ガンダーラ), also known as Crusade of Gandhara Buddha (ガンダーラ仏陀の聖戦), is an action-adventure-RPG that was released by Enix in 1987, for home computers exclusively in Japan.
This adventure game has the player searching ancient Mayan temples for a lost professor and his team.
One of the first action RPGs, released in 1984. It was also the first fully-scaled open-world video game.
Dragon Slayer is an action RPG designed by Yoshio Kiya and developed by Nihon Falcom. The title helped to pioneer the action RPG genre in Japan and spawned many sequels that would spin-off into their own franchises over time.
Players climb the tower, defeat Druaga and rescue Princess Ki in this maze-style, action role-playing game. Originally released by Namco for arcades in 1984, its combination of hack & slash combat and RPG elements laid the foundations for the action RPG genre.
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