Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (video game)

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is dungeon crawl role-playing video game written by Stuart Smith for the Atari 8-bit computers and published by Quality Software 1981.

The player plays as Ali Baba, and travels through a maze-like map of the city and surrounding wilderness in order to rescue a princess.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves incorporates some Dungeons & Dragons conventions as well as various mythological and superstitious elements into the storyline and environment.

[3] Softline stated that "Ali Baba displays a sense of creative humor that lifts it above routine adventure games ...

[4] Electronic Arts later combined Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and The Return of Heracles into Age of Adventure, which was ported to the Commodore 64.

The game on an Apple II