The Castle
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| System(s): SG-1000 | |||||||||||||||
| Publisher: Sega | |||||||||||||||
| Developer: ASCII | |||||||||||||||
| Genre: Action | |||||||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||
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The Castle (ザ・キャッスル) is video game developed by ASCII and released for the SG-1000 in 1986. It is a port of an MSX game of the same name, and is largely identical due to the similar hardware between the two machines. Due to the decline of the SG-1000 and emergence of the Sega Master System, the game was not released in Europe or Australia like many other SG-1000 games.
The Castle was the second to last SG-1000 game to be released commercially by Sega on a cart, preceded by Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes released the following year. The Castle was released on a packaging more akin to Sega Mark III cartridges than prior SG-1000/SC-3000 cartridges, although it uses a "Sega Cartridge" branding rather than the "Gold Cartridge" branding that was typical of Mark III releases (likely due to the game having a ROM size of only 32KB with 8 KB of RAM, rather than the 1-Megabit ROM size or larger that was required for a game to be considered a Gold Cartridge release).
The game has a fairly standard plot of rescuing a princess from a castle, though the game itself was considered very large for the time. It also contains a map system similar to that of later Metroid and Castlevania games.
The Castle was followed by the MSX/NES game Castle Excellent later in the year. The MSX version was also brought independently to the SG-1000 in Taiwan.
Physical scans
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References
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