Märchen Maze screenshots

Title screen

Intro

Please don't dawdle, Alice! We're very late, indeed

First stage, featuring Tweedle-Dum and Mushrooms wearing sunglasses and smoking cigarettes... yeah

Stage 1 - the Sweets Kingdom

Just like in the arcade original, the first boss is purple witch Miyasha

Stage 2 - the Machine Kingdom, with plenty of these wind-up robots

Fell off the platform, but as long as you have any balloons left you can respawn right where you died

Giant blue robot Arumeikon is the second boss

Stage 3 - the Green Kingdom is full of slimes

3rd boss - a pair of grinning spheres (the second one is off-screen)

Stage 4 - the Ice Kingdom, and where there is ice, there are penguins!

Tanbura (Tumbler) is the fourth boss

Stage 5 - the Time Kingdom features the Cheshire Cat (this enemy didn't appear in the arcade original)

Fifth boss is Triple Heads

Stage 6 - the Water Kingdom with lots of hopping between oncoming rafts, trying to get to the safe platforms, plus you have to watch out for the cards and dragonflies

Boss #6 - mechanical swordfish Raydoc just pushed poor Alice in the water

Stage 7 - the Sky Kingdom features many Mad Hatters, and these guys hide under their hats to protect them from Alice's attacks

The boss for stage 7 is Dead Rooster

Next stage is populated by evil Alices

Stage 8 - the Mirror Kingdom has Alice clones that emerge from mirrors (they're all clad in blue- the colour of Alice's dress in most interpretations of the original books)

The boss is stage 8 is Big Tortoise - straw hat & sunglasses wearing mustachioed turtle

Last Stage - the Queen's Kingdom. There's a ton of these playing cards waiting you here, luckily while I'm on the platform they can't get me

Final boss is Queen of Hearts, of course. She attacks by generating groups of Spades

Märchen Maze

TurboGrafx-16 screenshots