The First Samurai is a platform game

Platform game

A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...

 that involves the player on a quest as the first samurai

Samurai

is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...

 in the history of ancient Japan to survive in a world of evil

Evil

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 and rival swordsmen.

Summary

Eating food and drinking sake will help the player get stronger, while fire and enemy contact will weaken the samurai. The player starts out as a hermit

Hermit

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 in an ancient forest, but he eventually becomes powerful enough to fight in the villages and towns, and eventually the dungeon

Dungeon

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s. The game was originally produced for Amiga

Amiga

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 with versions to follow made for Atari ST

Atari ST

The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals...

, C64

Commodore 64

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, DOS

MS-DOS

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 and the Super NES

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

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. It was followed by Second Samurai.

External links

• First Samurai at MobyGames
  MobyGames
  -Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...
  
  , links to reviews
• First Samurai, The, review (with screenshots) at Abandonia