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Mixing a full action-adventure with a fantasy movie as Jason und die Argonauten (1963) and Kampf der Titanen (1981), and the 2D's side scrolling of the 8-bits NES (Nintendo Entertainment System), The Battle of Olympus starts after Hades, god of the dead and the underworld that it bears his name, kidnaps beauty Eurydice. With a little shield and a wooden club, Orpheus "the player" starts a travel to rescue her across the ancient Greece. Travel by places as wooden Arcadia, Argolis' caves, beauty Attica, Peloponnese's forests, coastal Laconia, Crete's door maze, rocky Phthia and dangerous Phrygia. Fight against infamous monsters as Lion of Nemea, Lamia, Gaea, Hydra and Cyclops as well as black winged unicorn, iron giant Talos, the three Graea, Centaur, Minotaur, Garden of the Hesperides' dragon and Cerberus. Collect fabulous items as Staff of Fennell, sword and Divine Sword as well as shield, winged sandals, Harp to summon Pegasus, Ocarina to summon dolphins, bracelet, Graea's eye, ...

Battle of Olympus is an Ancient Greek mythology version based of the Zelda II (NES). Both games use many of the same sprites and the game play is identical. However, there is no relation between the two games as canon or part of the same universe.

Although the game runs on the same engine and even uses sprites and other properties from Zelda II, the game is not made by the same developers. Infinity borrowed what they could from Nintendo whom made Zelda II.

The games original title was going to be "The Quest of Love". The phrase was printed as an under text on Japanese copies but was never translated to the English versions.

The music from the game is mostly 8-bits versions of composed works from Johann Sebastian Bach. This was done to save money on composing original music, and no copyrights needed to pay out to use it.

The game was released on the NES first in Japan in 1988 and then to America in 1989. Europe and Australia in 1991. In 1993 a version was ported to the Nintendo GameBoy. Despite it receiving a small cult following, lack of sales deemed the game a failure for the developers.

The game mixes the Ancient Greek myth of Demeter's daughter Persephone (Hades kidnaps her in a brief escapade from his underworld), and Orpheus and Eurydice (she dies accidentally running from the god Aristeus who previously tried force her and Orpheus travels to the underworld to try convince Hades to resurrect her).

Gods of the game not only give items, but password if the player talks with them by second time.


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