Golden Sun

Showed handheld hardware could deliver a full console-scale JRPG with puzzle-integrated magic.

Released 2001 Developer Camelot Software Planning Publisher Nintendo Platform Game Boy Advance Genre JRPG Era Broadband & the console shooter

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Golden Sun inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Experience Points and Levels ~~1980~~Battery-Backed Save File ~~1986~~Password Continuation ~~1986~~

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