Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole is a game by Climax Entertainment made in the early 90s for the Sega MegaDrive/Genesis. The game is the precursor to Dark Savior, Alundra and the abysmal Time Stalkers (or "Climax Landers"). It was, essentially, an extreme-hardcore-speed version of The Legend of Zelda.

Landstalker, for its day, sported a commendable translation and witty, charming characters. The story was also unusual. You played Nigel, a 78-year-old treasure hunting Wood Elf that everyone continuously mistakes for a small boy. The opening credits shows Nigel leaping across platforms suspended in air and seizing the Statue of Jypta. After handing the relic off to an old man for gold he meets the fairy Friday. She flies into his backpack to escape Kayla the huntress and her dimwitted companions. Why was she being chased? She just happens to know where the treasures of King Nole are.

King Nole was a tyrant who lived hundreds, if not thousands, of years prior to the start of the game. He was not a very popular man. In fact, his cruelty was notorious and one day the people of the land raided his castle only to find that he had disappeared. The fate of Nole and the countless treasures he had accumulated was never discovered.

Nigel agrees to hide Friday and he leaps for cover in some bushes to escape Kayla. The rest of the game has you, as Nigel, raiding tombs and trekking across the island of Mercator to find clues leading to Nole's treasure. Along the way you learn bits and pieces of world history. The world of Landstalker is obviously huge, as you hear of many distant lands and foreign languages and races but never in the game do you set foot off the isle. Of course, as you go, you save a few lives but, interestingly enough, saving the world never becomes an objective.