Magician/Gameplay

Similar games
Another adventure game with a similar quest is Tangled Tales, released the previous year for home computers.

There are very few adventure games released exclusively for the NES:
 * Princess Tomato in Salad Kingdom, a graphical text adventure made in Japan.
 * Magician, this game.
 * Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth, a multi-genre game, with some text adventure sections.
 * Stanley: The Search for Dr. Livingston, an action-adventure game made in the United States.