| Arena: Maze of Death Arena |
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European cover art |
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| Developer(s) | Eden Entertainment Software[1][2] |
| Publisher(s) | Sega[1][2] |
| Platform(s) | Sega Game Gear[1] |
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| Genre(s) | Action[1][2] |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Media/distribution | Game Gear cartridge |
Arena/Maze of Death (known in Europe as Arena) is an isometric action video game created by Eden Entertainment Software for the Sega Game Gear. Players have to play the role as a one-person mercenary squad who is trapped in heavily guarded and deadly areas with the primary goal of surviving. This game showed up late in the Game Gear's life span.
The setting is a futuristic city in the year 2026 (which is actually a glorified maze of rooms and generic enemy characters similar to video games with this setting).[2]
A television broadcasting company called Astralnet Broadcasting Company (carrying the initals ABC) was created to secretly control the population and keep them brainwashed.[2] Our pro-democratic sympathizer, Guy Freelander, is charged with the task of navigating through a warehouse district, an industrial park, and an old abandoned train station in order to enter a high-rise building through a weakly defended "back door" and broadcast proof of an evil corporation's wrongdoings over the TV stations.[2] Convinced that if they play the tape through ABC's broadcasting, they can convince the repressed population to rise up against the current regime.[2] There is no relation to the American Broadcasting Company, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, or any other real-life television station to the fictional ABC station found in the game.
The game has a similar feel to it as the American motion picture The Running Man starring Richard Dawson and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.