Maze of Galious
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is the sequel to Konami
's MSX
game Knightmare. While the first game was an overhead, vertical scrolling shooter, The Maze of Galious is a side-view, flick-screen platform game
. Starring in The Maze of Galious are Popolon and Aphrodite, entering the evil priest Galious' castle to free their yet-to-be-born son Pampas from the priest's evil clutches. Being able to control Popolon and Aphrodite means the player actually has two lives, and while the characters act slightly different the game stays more or less the same, no matter who the active hero is.
Konami
is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...
's 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...
game Knightmare. While the first game was an overhead, vertical scrolling shooter, The Maze of Galious is a side-view, flick-screen 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...
. Starring in The Maze of Galious are Popolon and Aphrodite, entering the evil priest Galious' castle to free their yet-to-be-born son Pampas from the priest's evil clutches. Being able to control Popolon and Aphrodite means the player actually has two lives, and while the characters act slightly different the game stays more or less the same, no matter who the active hero is.
Conversions
- A Family ComputerNintendo Entertainment SystemThe Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987...
version of Majō Densetsu II was released exclusively in Japan during the same year it was released for the MSX. The Famicom version features many differences from the original MSX 1 game, including a different title . - There is a fan-remake SDL version of the game with different graphic sets at http://www.braingames.getput.com/mog/
Trivia
- The Maze of Galious offers extra bits and bonuses if The Game MasterKonami Game MasterThe Konami Game Master, released as in Japan, is a special cheat cartridge specifically designed for Konami games on the MSX.It allowed the player to start at different stages, with more lives, save the game's progress and high scores, make screen dumps, and play in slow motion, as well as other uses...
, Knightmare or Q*bert are inserted in the second cartridge slot available on some MSX machines. - The freeware PC game La-MulanaLa-MulanaLa-Mulana is a side scrolling platform game released in 2005 for Windows PCs that features graphics and an interface inspired by MSX games. The game is a traditional action-adventure game, reminiscent of the Castlevania and Metroid games. This game was originally only available in Japanese, but an...
is an homage to MSX games in general and Maze of Galious especially, and borrows many elements from the game. It also contains a bonus area designed to look like a Maze of Galious level, in which the MSX cartridge of the original game can be found as an in-game item.