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The Guardian Legend

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Game Information

Original Release Date: February 05, 1988

Platforms: Family Computer, Nintendo Entertainment System

Involved Companies: Irem Corporation, Compile, Nintendo, Brøderbund Software

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

Summary: In The Guardian Legend, the player controls the female guardian of Earth, a "highly sophisticated aerobot transformer". The player's mission is to infiltrate Naju, a large planet-like object which aliens sent hurtling towards the Earth. While inside, the player must activate ten safety devices in order to initialize Naju's self-destruct mechanism and destroy the alien world before it reaches Earth. Five hostile tribes of alien lifeforms are vie for control of territories within Naju,and the player needs to fight through them to successfully activate the switches and escape.

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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).