Lufia & The Fortress of Doom

Lufia & The Fortress of Doom
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Taito
Developer: Neverland
Planned release date(s): Spring 1995
Genre: RPG
Number of players: 1
Status of prototype(s): Tech demo dumped

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Lufia & The Fortress of Doom is an RPG for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System developed by Neverland and published by Taito. Following its initial late 1993 release in North America, Taito announced plans for a Sega Mega Drive version, which was ultimately cancelled for unknown reasons. In Japan, the SNES game is known as Estpolis Denki, however no evidence suggests a Japanese version of the Mega Drive game was ever planned.

The game was shown at CES 1994, with the game receiving a tentative December 1994 release date. This was later pushed back to Spring 1995 (with this delay being advertised as "worth the wait") before being quietly cancelled. It was last seen in a very early state at Winter CES 1995.

It is speculated that the game, primarily intended for the North American market, was not released because of Taito America's closure in 1995.

Magazine articles

Main article: Lufia & The Fortress of Doom/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in GamePro (US) #64: "November 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
also published in:

• EGM² (US) #5: "November 1994" (1994-1x-xx)
• Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #65: "December 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

Print advert in GamePro (US) #66: "January 1995" (199x-xx-xx)

Technical information

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 30 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 60 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 74

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Lufia & The Fortress of Doom

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 2b4c3ec1 MD5 de307ec9370007eafb208703e48358c5 SHA-1 ede3a48b9115166cb47df72ec7065f0a427aae5d	1MB	1994-09	EPROM cartridge	Tech demo			Page