The Mysterious Murasame Castle

[Fryguy64]

NinDB: The Mysterious Murasame Castle

The second original title from Nintendo on the Famicom Disk System, The Mysterious Murasame Castle (Nazo no Murasamejo) is an action/adventure game where you must fight your way through four villages and defeat the village leaders in order to face an interstellar life form inhabiting the stone statue of Murasame.

Games

Series Overview
- A series introduction has been written.

The Mysterious Murasame Castle
System: Famicom Disk System
Re-releases: Game Boy Advance, Wii (Virtual Console)
- Story and gameplay is written.
- Required: Information on characters, enemies and items, with an eye to producing a game guide in the future.

In other media

TV: Nazo no Murasamejo
- Little is known about the programme, other than it is loosely based around Takamaru.

Board Game: Nazo no Murasamejo
- A board game based on the game was produced, although little else is known.

Cameos

Pikmin 2
One of the treasures you can collect is the Nazo no Murasamejo disk.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
"Douchuumen" (Castle Town BGM) is a music track that plays on the Mario Bros. stage.
Takamaru is also available as a collectable sticker.

Captain Rainbow
Takamaru is one of the forgotten Nintendo characters living on Mimin Island. He appears as an honourable swordfighter, but he gets nosebleeds whenever he tries to talk to the girl he secretly loves.

WarioWare D.I.Y. (Japan only)
One of the microgames is based on Nazo no Murasamejo. The minigame has been replaced in the Western version.

Samurai Warriors 3
A "Murasame Castle" game mode has a fully 3D Takamaru fighting through hoards of Samurai in a mode loosely based on the Nazo no Murasamejo game.

Soundtrack

In-Game Music
(Song titles translated from official soundtrack releases)
1. Game Start
2. Castle Town BGM
3. Invincible
4. Bonus Game
5. Inside the Castle BGM
6. Clear
7. Murasame Castle BGM
8. Before the Last Boss BGM
9. Clear the Mysterious Creature
10. Ending
11. Game Over

OST: Famicom 20th Anniversary Original Soundtracks
A series of 3 albums packed with unaltered Famicom music. Volume 1 features the complete soundtrack to Nazo no Murasamejo.
Volume 1

OST: Game Sound Museum ~Famicom Edition~
A mini-CD collection of music taken from Nintendo's Famicom and Disk System games. There were 21 disks in total, some featuring music from multiple games.
11 Nazo no Murasamejo

Remix: Toy Music - Dancing Super Mario Bros.
Akihabara Electric Circus remix album. Track 1 is a remix of Nazo no Murasamejo music.
link

Remix: Game Music Graffiti
A series of remix albums featuring music from Nintendo games. Track 3 is a remix of Nazo no Murasamejo music.
Famicom Disk System Graffiti
Game Music Graffiti (Compilation)

Remix: Famicom 20th Anniversary Arrange Soundtracks
2004 remixes of Famicom music to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Famicom. Track 6 is a remix of Nazo no Murasamejo music.
link

References
Nintendo.co.jp - Famicom Mini Nazo no Murasamejo
Nintendo.co.jp - Nazo no Murasamejo on Virtual Console
Strategy Wiki - Nazo no Murasamejo
Nazo no Murasamejo Guide & Maps (Japanese)
Hardcore Gaming 101 - Nazo no Murasamejo
Wikipedia - Nazo no Murasamejo
Wikipedia Japan - Nazo no Murasamejo

[The Qu]

I guess you should note that Samurai Warriors 3 was the first game to give us the translated title. Other than that, it looks complete. You're the big fan of the game on the boards, after all.

[Fryguy64]

Well, there's still help with translating the guides/maps/etc. And seeing if we can find any more information on the TV show or board game.

It may look complete... But it ain't over yet!

[Leon]

One thing that could be interesting to include from SW3.

SPOILERS

All four castle lords are also playable. They're all clones of other playable characters, but its cool none the less.

[Manspeed]

The Wikipedia article has this link to a page on the TV show: av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20051122/pony.htm

I think it might be an episode of another series that happens to be themed after Nazo no Murasamejo, or something to that effect.