 "Magician Lord" is a side-scrolling action-platform game similar to "Ghouls 'n Ghosts" and "Rastan" where the player takes control of Elta, the main protagonist, through eight stages of varying themes set in the land of Cadacis, where the main objective is to recover eight mystical books that were stolen by Gal Agiese, one of the main antagonists by defeating his servants, alongside with one of his creations that act as a boss at the end of the stage in order to progress further.Some of the levels featured are linear in nature, populated with obstacles and enemies, requiring the player to traverse the stage by running, jumping, climbing, shooting or dodging enemies, while other levels that are featured later in the game become more maze-like and exploratory, making the player take different routes to reach the end and if the player takes too long to complete the level, an invincible creature appears and starts following Elta until he is killed and respawns on the same location where he died.Once all lives are lost, the game is over unless the player inserts more credits into the arcade machine to continue playing.