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Aretha the Super Famicom

The game is a console-style RPG, where Ariel and her party travel on the world map, through forests, mountain paths, and caves, occasionally visiting towns and fighting monsters in turn-based combat viewed…

26 November 1993

Aretha the Super Famicom is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Japan Art Media, released 26 November 1993 on Super Famicom.

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What Aretha the Super Famicom is

Aretha the Super Famicom is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Japan Art Media and released in 1993. It was published by Yanoman. It is available on Super Famicom only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In a far away land, war was raging, as an evil ruler sent his troops to invade the castle of a mighty king. His minions stormed the castle and burnt it down. The king could not escape his fate, and the villain thought no one was spared by his wrath... Present time. You are Ariel, a little girl who lives with her old wise grandmother in a small house near a mountain range, north to the forest. She just turned ten, and the grandmother sends her on a seemingly simple quest: to go through the forest to Nineveh, the nearby town, and to meet there a certain person. But what starts as a simple assignment soon develops into the quest for magic powers of Aretha, the ultimate battle against the evil…
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

What it launched against

Aretha the Super Famicom launched on 26 November 1993, within three weeks of Doom, Mega Man X, SimCity 2000 and Romancing SaGa 2.

Released around the same time: Doom, Mega Man X, SimCity 2000, Romancing SaGa 2.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Aretha the Super Famicom come out?
Aretha the Super Famicom was released on 26 November 1993 for Super Famicom.

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