It is an understatement to mention that Zelda is a popular franchise, one that started on the Nintendo Entertainment System. When a title is popular, there are bound to be copycats, me-too’s and similar titles from many different companies, Treasures of Elnark is one of those titles. Rather than being a straight copycat of Nintendo’s classic, Treasures adds in some elements from SNK’s Ikari Warriors.

Released in August 1987, in Japan only, Treasures of Elnark was not too far behind the release of The Legend of Zelda. One interesting trait of Treasures is that the challenge and direction of the game is directly enfluanced by the choices the player makes. This is a precurser of titles such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and many others that took this mechanic many steps farther but here, on the NES, gamers can see an early version of the good/evil mechanic in action.

Treasures of Elnark is not a freeware title so we can only link to the fan translation patch file on Romhacking.net

Carl Williams

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