Defenders of Oasis

1992 (10/18/1992)

Defenders of Oasis, known as Shadam Crusader: Harukanaru Oukoku in Japan, is a role-playing video game released in 1992 for the Game Gear handheld system. The setting and plot draw heavily from Zoroastrianism, Mesopotamian mythology and The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, particularly the stories of Sindbad the Sailor, Aladdin, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. In terms of gameplay, it bore similarities to other JRPGs of the time, such as Phantasy Star - the player wandered a map and woul…