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| 風の伝説ザナドゥ Kaze no densetsu zanadou | |
| Developer(s) | Nihon Falcom Corporation |
| Publisher(s) | NEC Home Electronics |
| Release | February 18, 1994 
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| Genre | Action Role-playing game |
| Modes | Single player |
| Platform(s) | TurboGrafx-CD Virtual Console |
| Media | CD-ROM |
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| Previous | N/A |
| Next | The Legend of Xanadu II |
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The Legend of Xanadu is a action role-playing game developed by the Nihon Falcom Corporation. The eighth and final work in the "Dragon Slayer Series" produced by Yoshio Kiya.
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Until then, it had only developed PC games, and ported them to home consoles only by providing licenses, leaving everything up to other companies. Nihon Falcom entered the home console market for the first time, and launched the PC Engine SUPER CD-ROM2. The only series developed for The code title in the development stage is "The Legend of Xanadu ~Kaze no Monogatari~".
Nihon Falcom's representative programmer, Yoshio Kiya, was the last to be involved in Nihon Falcom's work, and like Kiya's other works, it belongs to the "Dragon Slayer Series". Kiya's representative work "Xanadu" is closely related not only to the title name but also to the music and part of the system, but this series is "Dragon Slayer VIII" and "Dragon Slayer II" "Xanadu series". ] It is treated independently from.
Both "The Legend of Xanadu I" and "The Legend of Xanadu II" were hits, and media mixes such as radio drama production were also performed. It is a work that has many deep-rooted fans, and when the remake route that started with "Revival Xanadu" was established, it was selected as the work that fans most wanted to remake. but, Since then, it has not been ported to other models or remade, making it one of the rare titles in Falcom that has not been ported or remade.
In 2004, a reprint of "The Legend of Xanadu I", which was made playable on Windows using the Project EGG system, was included in "Falcom Special Box '2004". In 2005, a reprint version of "The Legend of Xanadu II" was also created, and was bundled with the previous year's "The Legend of Xanadu I" as an initial bonus for the win game "Xanadu Next". These are reproductions of the PC Engine version using a game emulator, and later distributed on the Project EGG site for a fee. "The Legend of Xanadu I" was released on November 25, 2008 on the Wii virtual console, and "The Legend of Xanadu II" was released on January 27, 2009 (requires 800 Wii points each).