Defenders of Oasis (1992 Game)

Defenders of Oasis, known as  Shadam Crusader: Harukanaru Oukoku in Japan, is a  role-playing video game released in 1992 for the  Game Gear handheld system. The setting and plot draw heavily from  Zoroastrianism,  Mesopotamian mythology and  The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, particularly the stories of  Sindbad the Sailor,  Aladdin, and  Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. In terms of gameplay, it bore similarities to other JRPGs of the time, such as Phantasy Star - the player wandered a map and would have to deal with random encounters as well as scripted events and plot-developing cut-scenes along the course of the game. Combat was turn-based and a case of selecting from lists in a static fight rather than moving characters around a combat map.