Dungeon Magic: Sword of the Elements (NES)

In the beginning, you can pick one of 5? different schools of magic, and then you only have that type of magic. I'm sure you'll get to pick more when you level up.

The King's castle is to the north of the starting area.

The King gives you 100 gold and a short sword.

The Inn restores your health for 2 gold.

The Inn also acts as a save point for your progress.

You have to arm your weapons and equipment using the menu. When you've done it correctly, your character portrait shows the equipment on the character.

This is an interesting dungeon crawler with an open world (full of horrible snakes), well-rendered dungeons, and responsive movement.

I talked to a wizard, and now I have some magic symbols. I think the game's manual has spells that you can perform with these symbols.

It seems there is no map, but you can cast a map spell like Wizardry.

I have a short sword an leather armor. Now these snakes are gonna pay.

Killed by the first snake I met to the south. This armor and sword was useless!

Now I have equipped my weapons. Now the snakes are gonna pay!

I killed a few snakes and then a snake killed me.

The controls for picking up stuff from the ground is ridiculously complicated.