Final Lap
"Valkyrie no Densetsu" was the creation of Namco artist Hiroshi Fujii and a designer only known by the pseudonym of "Koakuman". The game's world, the fictional kingdom of Marvel Land, was greatly inspired by Viking tales from northern Europe and the middle ages, with a heavy emphasis on having a sort-of "magical" feel of it. It was originally meant to be four-player action game in the vein of titles like "Gauntlet" with a cabinet-linking system similar to "Final Lap", which was scrapped later on. Characters were made to have personality and depth, a design choice inspired by "The Wizard of Oz".