Defenders of Oasis

Defenders of Oasis, known as Shadam Crusader: Harukanaru Oukoku in Japan, is a role-playing video game released in 1992 for the Sega 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 Shining Force - 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.