Arcade Game: Arabian (1983 Sun Electronics)

A run n' jump platform with 4 levels.
Page 1. Page l turns, revealing a ship. The Prince must work his way to the crow's nest at the top of the mast before the vessel reaches the shore. As he climbs up the rigging, Rocs and Oscars dive at him in an attempt to knock him down. The Prince must KICK them out of the way to survive. While contending with these rascals, he must also try to collect all the jugs with letters on them. Beware! The jugs hold devilish Genies which can appear at any time and throw smokeballs at the Prince. Once a Genie has materialized, the Prince's kicking power cannot be used against him and he is unable to collect the jug so he should avoid the Genie. However, the Prince may collect the jug while the Genie is in smoke. When the Arabian has collected all the jugs and reaches the top of the ship, Page 2 introduces the second level of the story.
Page 2. Now the Arabian has arrived on shore. To reach the Princess he must complete a cave maze under the cliff. Low-hanging rocks and climbing vines force him to crawl and climb. The Prince must still dodge Rocs, Oscars, and the Genie's smokeballs. And he must still collect the brass jugs. When he reaches the top of the cave, he must try to collect the letter N jug.
Page 3. Now the Arabian Prince must scale the walls of the castle. As flying carpets whiz by, the Arabian must jump from one to the next, taking care he isn't knocked off his present perch by another carpet flying too closely He can duck to avoid them, but his timing has to be precise or he will take a tumble down to the ground. He must still dodge Rocs, Oscars, and the Genie's smokeballs. The player must beware - sometimes a pair will merge into one super Roc bird or super Oscar!
Page 4. The Prince has at last entered the castle. The Princess beckons him from high in the tower. To reach her, he must ride atop some flying carpets and pull himself up ropes - all the while collecting the brass jugs and kicking meddlesome Rocs and Oscars. When he reaches his loving and grateful Princess, the 2 fly happily into the sunset on a magic carpet.
Note: Used invincibility cheat after down the last life. After beating the game, the levels restart to level 1 endlessly.

[@lordevyl8317]

The game was also ported to a lot of the 8-bit microcomputers under the name Tales of the Arabian Nights (by Interceptor Software)

[@blindmansarrow]

Why do people keep calling that a port? Does Arabian have a horizontal scrolling magic carpet flying segment? Other than the theme/setting and spelling Arabian, I'm confused why people are calling it a rip-off, clone, port, etc.

[@rowlandbuck2703]

I'm glad my parents took me to church just so I could know they used "thine is thy Glory" in quite a few video games back then.

[@theoriginal80sgamer39]

Cool another classic game from the past 😊

[@nuttyprofessor]

It's like Donkey Kong meets Prince of Persia

[@4a8p9x]

I remember the music of Scheherazade on the first screen when I played this game in the arcade. The William Tell overture just doesn't fit.

[@ahrichards5241]

4a8p9x Yeah this is the Japanese Sunsoft version, not the American Atari version.

[@4a8p9x]

Thanks for clearing that up

[@rotesil]

Background musics (Atari only):
Levels 1 & 3: Rimsky Korsakov - Scheherazade
Levels 2 & 4: Rimsky Korsakov-The Young Prince and Princess
Page intro: Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony No 6. Op 68 - 1st Movement
Attract mode: Mozart - Turkish March

[@Halpin2006]

Why the William Tell Overture? Why didn't the designers just the cliche tune dooty-do-dee-doo? And, simply put, it's just another Donkey Kong ripoff!

[@ナディアチャンネル-u1v]

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[@robbiezampini-is3en]

Ranking Results

[@RustyLeguito]

*The Famicom version is harder!*

[@lordevyl8317]

*harder. More Hard is not proper grammar

[@RustyLeguito]

@@lordevyl8317 Ok

[@amarjitsandhu7640]

Where can I play this game now

[@darkerfalcon3747]

MAME

[@chitownace777]

Some of those so called hits on Uluru were bullshit

[@DarrenTan-o4u]

Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦