Merfolk
Creatures theme
53
games
27platforms
Includes mermaids and/or mermen.
Notable people involved: Hiromichi Tanaka, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Nobuo Uematsu, Nasir Gebelli and Jenna Sharpe
Alternate names: Mermaids, Mermen
NES 1987-12-18
PS2 2003-03-25
PS1 2000-12-25
NES 1988-12-17
3DS 2015-11-05
LIN 1993
PS1 2000-08-15
COCO 1983
PS1 2003-04-08
GB 1993-06-06
C64 1986
NES 1991-05
Merfolk are sea creatures generally thought to be half fish/half human. The top half is human, usually. Some are simply water-breathing humans. Tales of them are similar to sirens or water nymph/water fairy folk. There have been many hoaxes claiming to 'prove' the existence of real mermaids. They are usually quite dangerous to people, even the nice ones.
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Games by year
The first Merfolk video game was released in 1982.
Square, Muteki Corporation, Electric Dreams and Pony Canyon published most of these games.