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Play Wizardry - Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Japan) Online

Gather six adventurers, map every twist of the dungeon on paper, and pray your priest survives long enough to resurrect the others when a wizard melts your party with one spell.

Genre: RPG
Released: 1987
File size: 256 bytes
Game Overview

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord came to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, a port of the 1981 Apple II original developed by Sir-Tech. It arrived on a console better known for action and platformers, offering a starkly different, methodical kind of challenge for NES owners willing to engage with its dense systems.

You control a custom party of up to six adventurers, delving into a massive, ten-level dungeon to retrieve a magical amulet. The game is played from a first-person perspective, navigating one square at a time through wireframe corridors; you map your progress on graph paper to avoid getting hopelessly lost. Combat is turn-based, requiring careful management of your fighters, mages, and priests, as death is permanent without the right spell or a costly trip back to town. Progress is brutally slow and punishing, where a single wrong turn or unlucky encounter can erase hours of work. It feels less like a game and more like a dangerous expedition you are barely surviving.

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