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Faxanadu

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Game Information

Original Release Date: November 17, 1987

Platforms: Family Computer, Nintendo Entertainment System, Wii

Involved Companies: Nintendo, Hudson Soft, Konami, Nihon Falcom

Genres: Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure

Summary: Faxandu is for the Famicom and NES. The name was licensed by Falcom and was developed and released in Japan in 1987. Nintendo also released the game to the world market in 1990. It can be considered a side-story of Xanadu, which is the second installment of Falcom's long-running RPG series, Dragon Slayer. The title is a combination of "Famicom" and "Xanadu"

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This work is part of CSCI E-114, Web Application Development with Jamstack, Harvard Extension School. All video game data was obtained from The Internet Game Database (IGDB).