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Oriental Legend Super is a side scrolling fighting game produced by Taiwanese company I.G.S. in 1998. As an enahnced version of Oriental Legend, It adds new skills and removes some useless skills. In version 100, It was called Oriental Legend Special outside Asia. After version 100, It is named O...

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Developer
International Games System

Released on
1998

Size
1–2 Players

Version
Arcade

Requirements
Arcade

Downloads
Fighting

ESRB Rating
Not Rated

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Oriental Legend Super is a side scrolling fighting game produced by Taiwanese company I.G.S. in 1998. As an enahnced version of Oriental Legend, It adds new skills and removes some useless skills. In version 100, It was called Oriental Legend Special outside Asia. After version 100, It is named Oriental Legend Super/Xiyou Shi E Chuan Super.

Oriental Legend Super

Overview & History

Released by IGS in 1998, Oriental Legend Super (Xi You Shi E Zhuan Super) stands as the ultimate evolution of the company's classic arcade beat-'em-up formula, deeply rooted in the iconic Chinese epic, Journey to the West. Following the commercial success of the original 1997 game, this "Super" iteration injects the cabinet with frantic energy, expanding the roster, refining sprite animations, and introducing a labyrinthine branching campaign. Players guide legendary pilgrims—Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing, Dragon Girl, and Xuanzang—through mystical realms plagued by demonic forces, culminating in a sprawling quest to retrieve sacred Buddhist texts from Thunderclap Mountain. Its vibrant, hand-drawn sprite work and notoriously unforgiving arcade difficulty made it a staple of late-90s game rooms.

Gameplay Features & Mechanics

Unlike standard horizontal scrollers, Oriental Legend Super introduces intricate RPG-lite mechanics. Players can collect magical tomes, weapons, and restorative items dropped by defeated fiends or hidden within breakable environments. The combat system revolves around high-damage combos, directional inputs, and a robust magic meter. Each character possesses distinct elemental spells and screen-clearing "Super Attacks" performed by executing fighting-game-style motion inputs (like quarter-circle rolls combined with attack buttons). The game rewards skilled crowd control, aggressive zoning, and timing defensive maneuvers to avoid relentless mob ambushes and screen-filling boss projectiles.