Sekiryuu-ou
An adventure game for the NES published by Sunsoft. It is based on a Japanese manga set during a historical Chinese civil war. Sekiryuou (often translated as "Red Dragon King") is a traditional Famicom…
Sekiryuu-ou is an adventure developed by Tokai Engineering, released 10 February 1989 on Family Computer.
What Sekiryuu-ou is
Sekiryuu-ou is an adventure game developed by Tokai Engineering and released in 1989. It was published by SUNSOFT. It is available on Family Computer only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
An adventure game for the NES published by Sunsoft. It is based on a Japanese manga set during a historical Chinese civil war. Sekiryuou (often translated as "Red Dragon King") is a traditional Famicom adventure game from Sunsoft, in which the player controls a protagonist via a series of menus in order to solve a series of puzzles. Though Sunsoft is credited as publisher, it is unclear if the game was made in-house or contracted to another developer. The game, and the manga it is based on, depict a period of ancient Chinese history between the Qin and Han dynasties, a few decades before the Three Kingdoms era began. As expected of a transitional period, there was plenty of intrigue and…
How it plays
Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sekiryuu-ou series
Sekiryuu-ou is the first of 2 entries we hold in the Sekiryuu-ou series. The next entry was Nintendo Classic Mini: Family Computer - Weekly Shonen Jump 50th Anniversary Version in 2018.
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