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| Developer(s) | Softstar |
| Publisher(s) | Softstar |
| Programmer(s) | Yao Zhuangxian |
| Series | The Legend of Sword and Fairy |
| Engine | Microsoft QBASIC Assembly |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS, Windows, Sega Saturn, iOS |
| Release | July 1995 (Taiwan)[1] 1996 (Mainland China) 1999 (Japan) |
| Genre(s) | Role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Traditional Chinese | 仙劍奇俠傳 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 仙剑奇侠传 | ||||||
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The Legend of Sword and Fairy (Chinese: 仙劍奇俠傳), also known colloquially as Sword and Fairy 1 (仙劍一), is a fantasy adventure role-playing video game developed by the Taiwanese game company Softstar Entertainment, incorporating elements of wuxia, shenmo and xianxia and heavy inspirations from traditional Chinese mythology. Initially released in 1995 for the MS-DOS platform, the game was later re-released for Windows 95 in 1997, for Sega Saturn in 1999, and as a re-rendered version for Windows 98/Windows XP in 2001.
The game was a huge critical and commercial success (despite rampant piracy) across Greater China and has been widely praised as one of the most iconic and influential Chinese RPG games of all time, and its further worldbuilding has since spawned a successful video game franchise in Taiwan and Mainland China. In addition to video games, it has also developed into a media franchise of live-action performances (television series, web series and stage productions, most famously a 2005 television adaptation by Tangren Media starring Hu Ge in his breakout role), audio dramas, comic books, artbooks, novelizations and fan fictions, as well as various digital and collectible merchandises.