060 · DEADLY TOWERS
The game where the towers are deadly and the gameplay even deadlier. Try to remember what “fun” is after playing this one! For more NEStalgia as well as show notes for this episode visit www.NEStalgiacast.com
Show notes
- ARPG
- Co-Developed by Lenar and Tamtex (owned by Irem) for Irem
- Broderbund published in NA (best known for Apple II games and Prince of Persia)
- Lenar involved with video game development, musical instrument production, mechatronics, and CG production for TV shows.
- Deadly Towers was called Evil Bell on Famicom. The Japan Cart had a red LED which lit up when turned on.
- The game was almost called HELLS BELLS in NA, but NOA refused.
- LONGEST PLOT EVER - it keeps going and going
- Basically in a nutshell - Rubas, the Devil of Darkness, is taking over the kingdom with the power of the seven magic bells.
- Non-Linear Gameplay - Does it work?
- At the top of each tower is a boss
- SO MANY SCREENS - The Tenth maze has 235 screens
- ON DIFFICULTY
- Weiss stated: "We did a lot of testing of the game and we didn't actually find it that difficult at Brøderbund, and I think we wanted something more challenging than previously published titles to round out our portfolio.”
- Items - https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Deadly_Towers/Items
- Stupid Dungeon Maps - http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/52
- Alan Weiss Interview - https://tay.kinja.com/talking-deadly-towers-nes-with-broderbunds-producer-a-1496594066
- Deadly Towers Box Art Tweet