The Faery Tale Adventure

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The Faery Tale Adventure
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer:
Genre: RPG

















Number of players: 1
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The Faery Tale Adventure is an RPG originally developed and published by MicroIllusions for the Commodore Amiga (as The Faery Tale Adventure: Book I) in 1987. Four years later it was ported to the Sega Mega Drive by New World Computing and published by Electronic Arts in North America and Europe.

The Mega Drive port is the only console version of The Faery Tale Adventure, though is seen to struggle due to a reliance on the three button Mega Drive control pad when the game was originally optimised for use with a mouse. The Mega Drive version also omits the original subtitle "Book I", presumably because at this point it was assumed MicroIllusions would produced a "Book II". Eventually a sequel did appear as Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II, released for DOS and Windows PCs in 1997.

Production Credits

Design: Talin
Programming: Joe Pearce
Graphics: Talin, Allison Hershey, Bonita Long-Hemsath, Ernie Potvin
Musical Score: Talin

The Faery Tale Adventure is a trademark of MicroIllusions, Inc.
Used with permission.
Licensed to Electronic Arts by New World Computing, Inc.
Licensed by Sega Enterprises Ltd.

Copyright 1987 MicroIllusions Inc.
Copyright 1991 New World Computing
All rights reserved.

Physical Scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
95 №1, p46/47
75 №19, p184
49 №1
88 №12, p34/35
69 №12, p63
60 №23, p53
60 №25, p33
81 №18, p65
Sega Mega Drive
72
Based on
8 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
70
[1]
Consoles + (FR)
95
[2]
Console XS (UK) PAL
81
[3]
Dragon (US)
80
[4]
Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)
70
[5]
Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide (UK)
61
[6]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
84
[7]
Igry Sega Luchshiye iz luchshikh. Vypusk 1 (RU)
80
[8]
Joystick (FR)
75
[9]
Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK) PAL
65
[10]
Mega (UK) PAL
31
[11]
Mega Force (FR) PAL
65
[12]
MegaTech (UK)
49
[13]
Mean Machines (UK)
61
[14]
Mean Machines Sega (UK)
49
[15]
Player One (FR)
88
[16]
Raze (UK) PAL
69
[17]
Sega Power (UK) PAL
50
[18]
Sega Power (UK) PAL
60
[19]
Sega Power (UK)
30
[20]
Sega Pro (UK) PAL
81
[21]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
71
[22]
User (GR) PAL
85
[23]
Sega Mega Drive
67
Based on
23 reviews

The Faery Tale Adventure

Mega Drive, US
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Cover
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Cart
Mega Drive, EU
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Cover