Atlantis no Nazo
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| Developer(s) | Sunsoft |
| Publisher(s) | Sunsoft |
| Programmer(s) | Hiroaki Higashiya Masahito Nomura |
| Composer(s) | Naoki Kodaka |
| Platform(s) | Famicom PlayStation Virtual Console |
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Virtual Console
Virtual Console
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| Genre(s) | Platform game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Atlantis no Nazo (アトランチスの謎 atoranchisu no nazo?, lit. "The Mystery of Atlantis") is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Sunsoft and released for the Family Computer in 1986.
Several years ago, a gigantic island arose from the southern Atlantic Ocean due to sudden shifts on the Earth's surface. Numerous adventurers made their way to the island to investigate, but none of them were able to return home safely. This island was named Atlantis, and nobody approached it out of fear. The game's main character is an amateur adventurer named Wynn, who decides to go to the island after learning that his master disappeared on the island over half a year ago. Armed with the special dynamite invented by the master, Wynn heads over to Atlantis all by himself to face an evil emperor who seeks to revive an ancient empire.
The game is a side-scrolling platform game, similar to Super Mario Bros., but unlike Mario, it is possible to scroll in both directions on the screen rather than just the right-hand direction. However, the somewhat choppy physics of Atlantis no Nazo, one-hit deaths, and multiple pathways make it much more challenging than Super Mario Bros.
The levels in the game are referred to as "zones", and the player travels through various locations such as fields, caves, ruins, temples, and even across clouds. The games consists of 101 of these zones (zones 1-99, the final zone, and secret final zone), and features not native to Atlantis, such as Moai face statues and pyramids appear in backgrounds of the zones. In later zones, the terrain may be difficult to see because of the dark, or it may become hard to control the character because the ground is covered with ice. Some zones (called "black holes") only involve falling. Three zones are not connected to the main game, so they can only be accessed using a hidden command that allows the player to select and play any zone they want.
The player starts from the first zone, and must head towards the final zone to rescue Wynn's master while fending off numerous enemies by throwing sticks of dynamite. The player warps into different zones by going into the entrances placed within each zone. However, the zones do not come in numerical order, as several warp entrances may be placed within a single zone.
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