SE3K Survivors Experience 3000

Sindbad Mystery

Sega · 1983

Sega's 1983 arcade game. Sindbad walks a maze of islands digging for treasure, and the digging is the mechanic: holes are traps for the creatures chasing him, and a filled hole is safe ground again. One of Sega's earliest attempts at a maze game with more than one verb in it.

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Format
Cartridge
Platform
Sega SG-1000 / SC-3000
Product code
G-1012
Publisher
Sega
Year
1983
Hardware
32K ROM + 2K RAM

Loads straight into SE3K, an emulator of the real hardware: Z80 CPU, TMS9918A video and SN76489 sound, with the CRT picture reproduced by the shaders. Nothing to install.

Elsewhere

Sindbad Mystery (Sega · 1983) — cover artwork of the cartridge for the Sega SG-1000 / SC-3000, 32K ROM
Cartridge · 32K

Save this cartridge — keep it, and drop the file on the emulator whenever you want to play it.

Memory map
$0000–$7FFF32K ROM
$C000–$FFFF2K RAM, mirrored
Sindbad Mystery running on the Sega SG-1000 / SC-3000 — in-game screenshot, 256×192, grabbed from the emulator
Sindbad Mystery — 256×192, as the machine draws it
The Sindbad Mystery cartridge — the board is inside it
See the board inside — the circuit, its chips and their datasheets
Sindbad Mystery (1983) — first page of the printed manual, scanned; 6 pages in all
Read the manual — 6 pages, as printed