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Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

NES / Famicom port of the first game in the Wizardry series.

22 December 1987

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Game Studio, released 22 December 1987 on Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System.

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What Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Game Studio and released in 1987. It was published by ASCII Corporation. It is available on Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System.

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Wizardry series

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is the seventh of 48 entries we hold in the Wizardry series. It arrived 8 months after Wizardry: The Return of Werdna - The Fourth Scenario. The next entry was Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom in 1988.

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What it launched against

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord launched on 22 December 1987, within three weeks of Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus and Head Over Heels.

Released around the same time: Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus, Head Over Heels.

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When did Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord come out?
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord was released on 22 December 1987 for Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System.

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