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Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (arcade game)
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Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves is a maze arcade game
released by Sega
in 1982
. Players take the role of the famous Arabian hero who must fend off and kill the forty thieves who are trying to steal his money. The game is based on the folk tale of the same name.
Another early 80s Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves video game was released in 1981 by Quality Software
for the Atari 800 personal computer platform. It stands as one of the earliest examples of the top down view fantasy role-playing video game
that combined the puzzle elements of an adventure game
with the statistical combat of a Dungeons & Dragons
game.
The Sega version of the game was also ported to the MSX
platform, and then a Vector-06c
port was made based on the MSX version.
Arcade game
An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars, and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, and merchandisers...
released by Sega
Sega
, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...
in 1982
1982 in video gaming
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. Players take the role of the famous Arabian hero who must fend off and kill the forty thieves who are trying to steal his money. The game is based on the folk tale of the same name.
Another early 80s Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves video game was released in 1981 by Quality Software
Quality Software
Quality Software is a defunct software design company that published games for Apple II and Atari 800 computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s...
for the Atari 800 personal computer platform. It stands as one of the earliest examples of the top down view fantasy role-playing video game
Role-playing video game
Role-playing video games are a video game genre with origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, using much of the same terminology, settings and game mechanics. The player in RPGs controls one character, or several adventuring party members, fulfilling one or many quests...
that combined the puzzle elements of an adventure game
Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...
with the statistical combat of a Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
game.
The Sega version of the game was also ported to the MSX
MSX
MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation...
platform, and then a Vector-06c
Vector-06C
Vector-06C is a home computer that was designed and mass produced in USSR in the late 1980s.- History :Vector-06C was created by Soviet engineers Donat Temirazov and Alexander Sokolov from Kishinev, Moldovan SSR . On 33rd National Radio Exhibition the design was honoured with the grand...
port was made based on the MSX version.