BaD #11: Arabian Magic

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BaD #11: Arabian Magic

On 02/15/2022 at 02:14 PM by daftman

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Arabian Magic

Released: 1992

Pitch: Non-stop action in the mystic world of Arabian Nights.

Arabian Magic is a decent belt-scrolling brawler. It's nice to see a different theme when often these kinds of games feature urban or sci-fi settings. There are four playable characters which are technically distinct but play very similarly. You can also occasionally get a genie lamp that will summon a generic muscled djinn or one of the defeated bosses (a nice touch, that) to briefly fight for you. The game suffers from the typical shortcomings of the genre, like heavily overused enemy types and cheap deaths, but with infinite continues it's fun to work through it. My nine-year-old son and I played through the whole thing and enjoyed ourselves. The one thing that really surprised me about this game was the music. It's pretty good!

Comments

Cary Woodham

02/15/2022 at 08:42 PM

I remember playing this game on Taito Legends 2. The character designs were pretty neat.

I'm going to list all the games I really liked on Taito Legends 2. Hopefully you can try them!

Cameltry

Cleopatra's Fortune

Dungeon Magic

Elevator Action Returns

G-Darius

KiKi KaiKai (later games were Pocky and Rocky in the US. Did you know a new Pocky and Rocky game is coming out this year?)

Kuri Kinton

Liquid Kids

Metal Black

Puchi Carat

Puzzle Bobble 2

Ramais

Space Invaders 95

The Xbox and PS2 versions had a couple of exclusive games. Unfortunately I didn't have an Xbox so I didn't get to play Cadash and Bubble Symphony on those. But at least the PS2 version had G-Darius!

daftman

02/16/2022 at 05:53 PM

I'm definitely looking forward to more games on this second collection over the first. I'll be getting to all these...alphabetically lol. It looks like there are quite a few good shmups in here and I hope the arcade nature of these will let me power through with infinite credits since I won't have the time to really put in the time and get good at them.