The Return of Ishtar

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The Return of Ishtar
Sales flyer
Developer(s)	Game Studio[2] Namco
Publisher(s)	Namco
Designer(s)	Masanobu Endō
Artist(s)	Yūichirō Shinozaki
Composer(s)	Junko Ozawa Yuzo Koshiro (MSX version)
Series	Babylonian Castle Saga
Platform(s)	Arcade, FM-7, MSX, PC-8801, PC-9801, X68000
Release	JP: March 1, 1986[1]
Genre(s)	Maze, action role-playing
Mode(s)	Multiplayer
Arcade system	Namco System 86

The Return of Ishtar^[a] is an action role-playing arcade video game released by Namco in 1986.^[3] It runs on Namco System 86 hardware and is the sequel to The Tower of Druaga, which was released two years earlier.^[4] The game's story directly starts after the first game, where Ki and Gil must venture down in the Tower of Druaga and escape it. It is the second game in the company's Babylonian Castle Saga series, and was later ported to the MSX, NEC PC-8801, FM-7, and Sharp X68000 platforms. The Return of Ishtar was included in the compilation game Namco Museum Volume 4 for the PlayStation, which is also the first time the game had been released overseas.

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