The Tower of Druaga

source: wikidata1984 video game

source: wikipedia_enThe Tower of Druaga is a 1984 action role-playing maze video game developed and published by Namco for Japanese arcades. Controlling the golden-armored knight Gilgamesh, the player is tasked with scaling 60 floors of the titular tower in an effort to rescue the maiden Ki from Druaga, a demon with eight arms and four legs, who plans to use an artifact known as the Blue Crystal Rod to enslave all of mankind. The game runs on the Namco Super Pac-Man arcade hardware, modified with a horizontally scrolling video system previously used in Mappy. Druaga was designed by Masanobu Endō, best known for creating Xevious (1983). It was conceived as a "fantasy Pac-Man" with combat and puzzle solving, taking inspiration from games such as Wizardry and Dungeons & Dragons, along with Mesopotamian, Sumerian and Babylonian mythology. It began as a prototype game called Quest with interlocking mazes, revised to run on an arcade system; the original concept was scrapped due to Endō disliking the heavy use of role-playing elements, instead becoming a more action-oriented game. In Japan, The Tower of Druaga was widely successful, attracting millions of fans for its use of secrets and hidden items. It is

source: romuドルアーガの塔。ナムコの名作アクションRPG。60階の塔を攻略し、囚われの巫女カイを救出せよ。各階に隠されたアイテムを見つけながら進む戦略性の高いゲーム。

source: romuドルアーガの塔。ナムコの名作アクションRPG。60階の塔を攻略。

source: wikidataナムコの1984年のビデオゲーム

source: wikipedia_ja『ドルアーガの塔』（ドルアーガのとう、The Tower of Druaga）は、ナムコが開発し、1984年7月に発売された業務用アクションRPG。また、ゲームの舞台となる塔の名称でもある。『バビロニアン・キャッスル・サーガ』の第1作。略称は『TOD』。 『ゼビウス』（1983年）で知られる遠藤雅伸がゲームデザインを担当した、アクションRPGの草分け的存在である。 後に続編となるアーケードゲーム『イシターの復活』（1986年）が発売され、以後シリーズ化された。