Rod spell on him to wake him up; he will then proceed to warp her and Gilgamesh to the "Calvary Prison" room. Reception In Japan, Game Machine listed The Return of Ishtar on their August 15, 1986 issue as being the sixteenth most-popular arcade game at the time. Reviewing Namco Museum Volume 4, Jeff Gerstmann of GameSpot described The Return of Ishtar as weird and boring. Electronic Gaming Monthlys Shawn Smith said it and The Genji and Heike Clans were bad games due to their difficult controls and not being fun. Legacy A theme based on the game is featured in Pac-Man 99, as one of the game's DLC. The main theme of the game received a remix in Namco × Capcom. Notes References External links 1986 video games Action role-playing video games Arcade video games FM-7 games Maze games Mobile games MSX2 games Namco arcade games NEC PC-8801 games NEC PC-9801 games Nintendo Switch games PlayStation 4 games X68000 games Video games scored by Yuzo Koshiro Video games developed in Japan Video games featuring female protagonists Virtual Console games Hamster Corporation games