Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished
- Original title
- Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished
- Also known as
- Ys I, Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished Omen, Ys 1, イース1, イース 失われし古代王国 序章
- Developed by
- Falcom
- Year
- 1987 (December)
- System
- MSX2
Technical Specifications
- Rating
-
68 votes, 3.07 avg
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- RAM
- 64kB
- VRAM
- 128kB
- Sound
- PSG
- Kind
- Game
- Tagoo database entry
- Visit (Japanese MSX database)
- Last updated on
- 09-04-2026
- Input Devices Supported
- Keyboard
- Language
- Japanese
- Genre
- Rpg
- Max Players
- 1
- Max Simultaneous Players
- 1
- Uses Kanji
- No
- Uses V9990
- No
Note
Official Japanese title lacks the subtitle.
The Apple IIGs, IBM-PC and Tandy 1000 ports are translated to English. Manual https://archive.org/details/Ancient_Land_of_Ys-Manual
The Apple IIGs, IBM-PC and Tandy 1000 ports are translated to English. Manual https://archive.org/details/Ancient_Land_of_Ys-Manual
Groups & Mentions
Mentioned in Publications:
- Het grote MSX peeks, pokes en truuks boek deel 3 on page 3 (cheat)
- Het grote MSX peeks, pokes en truuks boek deel 5 on page 59 (hint)
- MSX Club Magazine 23 on page 78 (cheat)
- MSX Club Magazine 32 on page 69 (other)
- MSX Club Magazine 34 on page 83 (hint)
- MSX Gids 24 on page 39 (hint)
- MSX Gids 24 on page 42 (map)
- MSX Gids 23 on page 36 (hint)
- MSX Gids 25 on page 32 (map)
- MSX Gids 25 on page 36 (hint)
- MSX Magazine 1987-10 on page 16 (ad)
- MSX Magazine 1987-12 on page 1 (ad)
- MSX Magazine 1987-12 on page 64 (ad)
- MSX Magazine 1988-1 on page 1 (ad)
- MSX Magazine 1988-1 on page 11 (ad)
- MSX Magazine 1988-1 on page 98 (review)
- MSX Magazine 1988-1 on page 712 (news)
- MSX Magazine 1988-2 on page 90 (review)
- MSX Magazine 1988-5 on page 69 (map)
- MSX Magazine 1988-8 on page 100 (hint)
- MSX Magazine 1989-10 on page 36 (ad)
- MSX Magazine 1989-11 on page 46 (ad)
- Technopolis テクノポリス 1991-9 on page 25 (other)
- Micom BASIC Magazine マイコンBASICマガジン 1988-4 on page 313 (hint)
- Micom BASIC Magazine マイコンBASICマガジン 1989-11 (ad)
- イース&イースIIブック (Ys & Ys II Book) on page 2 (guide)
- Club HNOSTAR 34 on page 30 (review)
- MSX・FAN 1993-2 on page 22 (other)
- MSX・FAN 1993-2 on page 107 (news)
- Takeru Press 1995-8/09 on page 11 (ad)
- MSX・FAN 1992-6 on page 23 (hint)
- MSX・FAN 1994-10 on page 75 (hint)
- MSX・FAN 1988-3 on page 3 (ad)
- MSX・FAN 1988-5 on page 116 (other)
- LOGiN 1988-5 on page 62 (ad)
- LOGiN 1988-5 on page 306 (other)
- Takeru Press 1993-10/11 on page 8 (ad)
- Takeru Press 1993-3/04/05 on page 8 (ad)
- WANDERERS FROM YS on page 2 (ad)
- MSX・FAN 1991-11 on page 123 (ad)
- Takeru Press 1994-8/09 on page 7 (ad)
- Call MSX 2 on page 14 (hint)
- LOGiN 1988-1 on page 5 (other)
- LOGiN 1988-1 on page 100 (ad)
- LOGiN 1988-1 on page 155 (ad)
- Takeru Press 1996-2/03 on page 7 (ad)
- Takeru Press 1995-12/1996-01 (ad)
- ゲーム十字軍vol.1 GAME CRUSADERS vol. 1 on page 13 (hint)
- ゲーム十字軍vol.2 GAME CRUSADERS vol. 2 on page 61
- LOGiN 1989-10/20 No. 20 on page 52 (ad)
- MSX・FAN 1988-9 on page 19 (cheat)
- TAKERU名作文庫ソフト全カタログ / Takeru Masterpiece Library Software Complete Catalog on page 10 (ad)
- Takeru Press 1995-6/07 on page 11 (ad)
- Takeru Press 1996-4/05 (ad)
- MSX応援団 MSX Oendan 1988-2 (review)
- MSX応援団 MSX Oendan 1988-2 on page 59 (other)
- MSX応援団 MSX Oendan 1988-7 on page 60 (guide)
- Ys Original Sticker on page 1 (other)
Groups:
-
Ys series
Next: Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished - The Final Chapter (MSX2 | 1988)
-
Not for sale items
Next: Undeadline (MSX2 | 1989)
-
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See Also
- Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished - The Final Chapter (MSX2 | 1988)
- Ys: Wanderers from Ys (MSX2 | 1989)
- Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished Omen in-store demo (MSX2 | -)
Conversions
- Nintendo NES (Famicom)
- IBM PC (MS-DOS)
- Apple II
- Sega Master System (Mark III)
- NEC PC-88
- Sharp X1
- Sharp X68000
- NEC PC-98
- Fujitsu FM-7
- IBM-PCjr / Tandy 1000
Credits
- Scenario
- Tomoyoshi Miyazaki
- Graphics
- Ayano Koshiro , Takahiro Ōura , Tomō Yamane
- Music compose
- Mieko Ishikawa , Yuzo Koshiro
- Map design
- Seigo Oketani , Yoshihiko Kurata
- Character design
- Ayano Koshiro
- Manual instruction
- Tetsuya Igarashi , Tsuneyuki Miyamoto
- Manual illustration
- Yoshimi Satō
- Program
- Tomoyoshi Miyazaki
- Program advisor
- Seigo Oketani , Yoshihiko Kurata
- Special thanks
- Akiko Hagiya , Hiroshi Nakajima , Katsumi Togashi , Kazuhiko Tsuzuki , Kazunari Tomi , Koichi Hatakeyama , Noriyoshi Akiba , Reiko Takebayashi , Shizuo Kanai , Tadanobu Inoue , Toshio Tachikawa , Yoshio Kiya
- Director
- Masaya Hashimoto
- Producer
- Masayuki Katou
- Copyright by
- Falcom 1987
- Presented by
- Falcom