Play Wizardry Gaiden 1 - Joou No Junan (japan) Online

Wizardry Gaiden 1: Joou no Junan came out in 1991 for the Game Boy, developed by ASCII Entertainment. It was part of a wave of Japanese role playing games that tried to bring complex dungeon crawlers to a handheld screen, a time when developers were still figuring out how to shrink that kind of experience down.

You control a party of adventurers created from scratch, choosing their classes and stats before descending into a multi level dungeon. Your main goal is to rescue the queen, which involves navigating maze like corridors one step at a time on a first person, screen by screen basis. Combat is turn based, letting you pick attacks or spells for each character from a menu. You have to manage resources carefully, especially your light source, because if your torch goes out you are plunged into darkness and attacked more frequently. The game moves at a deliberate pace and the difficulty is steep, with permanent death for characters a real possibility. Playing it feels like a constant, tense calculation of risk against your dwindling supplies.