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Synopsis

Maharaja is an adventure game with RPG elements published by Sunsoft and developed by Quest.

The protagonist is a young man who recovers a mystical treasure box belonging to the Maharaja of the Ganges. He is rewarded with a feast for retrieving the item, but the princess warns him later that night that the Maharaja's generosity is a ruse and that he is being controlled by an evil sorcerer and plans to kill the hero in the morning. The hero escapes the palace to seek a way to free the Maharaja and save the princess, gaining help from the gods along the way.

Maharaja features an adventure game interface with a small viewing window for everything the character sees, as well as a list of commands on the side for the player character to try. Speech and other descriptive text appear below the image window. Additionally, the player may also find himself embroiled in random battles that play out like other turn-based RPGs of the era. The player can find and equip new equipment as well as learn new spells as the game continues.

The game was never officially localized into English and was never released outside of Japan. A fan translation was created in 2009.

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