I haven't featured enough action / arcade games. I get hung up on the RPG and Adventure types because they're my favorite, but I neglect the most popular genre... action. "Tales of the Arabian Nights" is all action, it's very challenging yet fun to play. The thing I like about it most is that it follows a story line (Arabian Nights), and is presented in 8 levels, each one different, hard and cool. Between levels you get a little more of the story told to you... Yes, they TELL the story via speech synth, so of course I'm all impressed. Even the credits when the game starts are speech synth. You can't understand them all that well, but this is a game from 1984 so any speech is awesome. I like the game play, although like many early C64 action games it's a little clunky. For example on the first level (night), you have to get the jugs or urns or whatever they are in order to spell ARABIAN, but the jumping and ladder climing are a little slow and picky leading to a lot of you dying. It's not all that bad, and you will get the hang of it after a while so it's well worth the few minutes it will take to get your sea legs. The graphics are nothing to write home about, but they do the job. So get in on the adventure of Arabian Nights. It's a retro treat you don't want to pass up.
Tales of the Arabian Nights on Gamebase64
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