Maze Land (MZ-700 Game)

Maze Land
	"Maze Land" Game Selection Screen
MAZELAND; Maze Land
MAZELAND; Maze Land
Platform(s)	Sharp MZ-700
Release Date	1983
Genre	Maze/Puzzle
Price	¥3,400
Catalog	E-GO44
Publisher	Enix
Programmer	Takashi Shimizu
Music Composer(s)	Shunsuke Kikuchi, Masaaki Hirao
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Maze Land is a maze/puzzle video game developed by Takashi Shimizu (清水孝司)^[a] for Enix and released in 1983 for the Sharp MZ-700 microcomputer in Japan.

The overall game package (stylized as "MAZELAND" on its box cover) contains two games that can be selected from its title screen:

the game specified for children called めいろやしき (or roughly "Maze Mansion") featuring Dr. Slump characters (as well as a variation on its TV series' original theme song, "Wai Wai World" by Shunsuke Kikuchi);
and the eponymous "MAZE LAND" aimed at adults which includes some striptease elements^[1] (as well as a variation on the Arcadia of My Youth theme song by Masaaki Hirao).

Gameplay

The back of the box describes the game:^[2]

吸血グモ接近中!! 警告ブザ一が三次元迷路に響く。ビーム発射! ギャー!! 恐怖の「MAZELAND」と、アラレちゃんのキャラクタ―も楽しい「めいろやしき」ここに3D迷路はリアルタイムゲームへと進化した。
A bloodsucking spider approaches!! A warning buzzer echoes throughout the 3D maze. Beam fired! Aahhhh!! From the terrifying "Maze Land" to the fun "Maze Mansion" featuring Arale-chan, 3D mazes have evolved into real-time games.

Gameplay in "Maze Mansion" takes place in a first-person view, with the player navigating simple mazes of walls and hallways to find Arale at the winning endpoint, and avoiding Nikochan at the losing endpoint.

Development

Maze Land was developed in a four-month period:^[2]

作者紹介/清水孝司
昭和25年生れ。新潟県出身。現在、新潟県在住。公社職員。マイコン歴2年。MZ-700でグラフィックを限界にまで活用し、3D迷路に挑戦。自分との妥協を許さず、こつこつと4ヶ月程月日をかけ、ここに楽しくかつ、怖いゲームを完成させた。
Creator profile: Takashi Kiyomizu
Born in 1950, in Niigata prefecture, where he currently lives. Employed at a public corporation. Has two years of experience with microcomputers. Pushes the graphical capabilities of the MZ-700 to their absolute limits. Also likes to tackle making mazes in 3D. Refuses to make any compromises, even to himself, and after laboring diligently for about four months, he managed to complete this fun-but-scary game.

Packaging

Packaging/box front cover
Packaging/box back cover
Packaging inside contents
Game cassette

Game Credits

TBD

External Links

Notes

↑ This is the most likely reading for this individual's name, based on the "T. Simizu" text in-game on the title screen.

References

↑ @youkan700 (14 October 2016). Twitter. Retrieved: 26 March 2026.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Maze Land. Japan: Enix. Sharp MZ-700. 1983. (back packaging text)

[1] This is the most likely reading for this individual's name, based on the "T. Simizu" text in-game on the title screen.

[2] @youkan700 (14 October 2016). Twitter. Retrieved: 26 March 2026.

[backpackaging-3] 2.0 ^2.1 Maze Land. Japan: Enix. Sharp MZ-700. 1983. (back packaging text)

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