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Adian no Tsue

A SunSoft Famicom Disk System top-down action-adventure game that also teaches arithmetic. Adian no Tsue ("Staff of Adian") is an educational action-adventure game that strongly resembles The Legend of Zelda…

12 January 1987

Adian no Tsue is an adventure developed by ASK Kodansha, released 12 January 1987 on Family Computer Disk System.

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What Adian no Tsue is

Adian no Tsue is an adventure game developed by ASK Kodansha and released in 1987. It was published by Asmik Corporation. It is available on Family Computer Disk System only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A SunSoft Famicom Disk System top-down action-adventure game that also teaches arithmetic. Adian no Tsue ("Staff of Adian") is an educational action-adventure game that strongly resembles The Legend of Zelda, or at least its dungeon areas. However, a major difference is that in order to collect the game's chief currency - bells - the player must solve basic arithmetic puzzles. Each room of the game contains monsters the first time the player enters. After defeating them, the player can select any of the nearby doors to enter: Some lead to different areas, but others will simply reveal a bell for the player to collect. Before the player can take this bell, the game presents a sum and the…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Adian no Tsue launched on 12 January 1987, within three weeks of World Games, Contra, Gauntlet and The Sentinel.

Released around the same time: World Games, Contra, Gauntlet, The Sentinel.

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When did Adian no Tsue come out?
Adian no Tsue was released on 12 January 1987 for Family Computer Disk System.

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