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Where Indie and Fangame Collide
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/27/2025
“Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons” (“P&S”) is an unofficial sequel to a game that already has an official sequel, created by a lone Indie developer. The original game that inspired “P&S” is “The Maze of Galious,” an ancient precursor of the Metroidvania sub-genre released in Japan and Europe by Konami in 1987, originally for the mysterious MSX computer system, but with a Famicom (NES) port later in the same year. “The Maze of Galious” was, itself, already a sequel, and, in fact, was the middle game in a trilogy that included a SHMUP called “Knightmare” (1986) and an Adventure game called “Shalom” (late 1987). Due to the limited releases of the first and third games in the ‘Knightmare’ Trilogy, only “The Maze of Galious” made much of a lasting …
