He treated the game as a traditional licensing agreement rather than a collaboration. James Clavell contributed little to the design of the game, although he and Dave Lebling met several times. Eventually, he embraces Japanese life and is honored as a samurai. After learning some of the society's ways, he is drawn into a political struggle between warlords and falls in love with a Japanese woman. Blackthorne must survive in a land where every custom is as unfamiliar to him as the language. During a voyage in the Pacific Ocean in the year 1600, the Erasmus is shipwrecked in Japan. The player assumes the role of John Blackthorne, pilot-major of the Dutch trading ship Erasmus. The game reproduces many of the novel's scenes, few of which are interconnected in any way. The game is based on the 1975 novel Shōgun by James Clavell. It was released for the Amiga, Apple II, DOS, and Macintosh. James Clavell's Shōgun is an interactive fiction video game written by Dave Lebling and published by Infocom in 1989.
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