Posted on 05/24/2014 at 04:49 PM
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Oh I can tell you what Faxanadu means. You see, Faxanadu was actually made by Falcom. Falcom is a Japanese game company that has been around for a long time. They've made games that you've heard of, like Ys, and maybe some games you haven't heard of, like Popful Mail and Gurumin. In Japan, one of their older game series was called Xanadu. Like most of Falcom's titles, Xanadu started out on computers. But when they made a Xanadu game for the NES, or Japanese Famicom, they called it Faxanadu. Famicom Xanadu. Fa-Xanadu. There, so now you know.
Strangely enough, I never did play Faxanadu.
I did, however, play one of Falcom's other games that got ported to the NES. It was called Legacy of the Wizard and I loved that game as a kid for some reason. Legacy of the Wizard was actually part of a long-running Falcom game series called Dragon Slayer (I think it was the fourth one), and in Japan it was published by Namco. Best of all, the music was done by Yuzo Koshiro! --Cary