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It was originally a port of Xanadu (1985), a personal computer game by Nihon Falcom, and in advertisements before release the title was given as Xanadu (provisional).

However, since it was made and broadcast before the title was changed to Faxanadu, the title is given as Xanadu, and the settings in the work are original ones that differ greatly from those of the finished game.

In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the game scored a total of 29 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine,it scored 20.79 out of 30, as shown below.

Incidentally, while the anime was being broadcast at the time, the 2 of them, Takahashi Meijin and Chie Kamishiro, who played Honey, appeared in a Hudson commercial, and there was also an announcement of a campaign giving away Xanadu.

The team gave her full freedom "from general directions to sound-making details", and Jun said that in these good circumstances she was able to work quite freely.

The game's world is featured in two 1990 episodes of the Saturday morning cartoon series Captain N: The Game Master: "The Feud of Faxanadu" and "Germ Wars".

Nintendo released the game in the United States and Europe as a first-party title under license from Hudson Soft.

In the November/December 1989 edition of Nintendo Power, Faxanadu debuted on the magazine's "Top 30" list at number six; it gradually fell from the list in subsequent issues.

Marcel van Duyn of Nintendo Life gave the game an 8 out of 10, saying it is a surprisingly fun game and an absolutely essential purchase for those who like RPGs, but he criticized the password system for western audiences, and was grateful the Virtual Console release eliminates that feature.