Fatal Labyrinth

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Fatal Labyrinth
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Steam
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sega R&D 9
Sound driver: SMPS Z80
Genre: RPG
Number of players: 1
Official in-game languages: 日本語 English
Release Date RRP Code JP ▼ (Game Toshokan) 1990-11-21 SUBsub US 1991-04 $39.9539.95 1309 EU 1991 1309 UK 1991 £34.9934.99 1309 AU 1991? CA 199x US ▼ 2010-09-13 $2.992.99 34289 EU ▼ 2010-09-13 €2.492.49 34289 UK ▼ 2010-09-13 £1.991.99 34289 AU ▼ 2010-09-13 $3.493.49 34289 US ▼ 2019-02-01 $0.990.99 34289 EU ▼ 2019-02-01 €0.990.99 34289 UK ▼ 2019-02-01 £0.790.79 34289 AU ▼ 2019-02-01 $1.351.35 34289 US ▼ 2019-02-01 $0.990.99 34289 EU ▼ 2019-02-01 €0.990.99 34289 UK ▼ 2019-02-01 £0.790.79 34289 AU ▼ 2019-02-01 $1.351.35 34289

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Fatal Labyrinth, called Shi no Meikyu: Labyrinth of Death (死の迷宮) in Japan, is a role-playing game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Mega Drive in 1991. In Japan, it was a Sega Game Toshokan download exclusive.

A Virtual Console version of the game was planned but never released.

Story

Dragonia, the castle of doom, has resurrected, and the ghouls that dwell within have stolen the Holy Goblet, the source of the world's light. The player controls Trykaar, a courageous fellow, who has volunteered to enter Dragonia and traverse its thirty levels to retrieve the Holy Goblet.

Gameplay

The game is a roguelike where most levels of the castle are chosen at random from a predefined set. The player will find monsters and items scattered at random. Monsters are fought by simply running into them. To pick up an item, the player should press while on top of it. opens up the inventory screen, where the player can equip various weapons and armor and use magic items. confirms a selection and leaves the screen. If the player ends up stuck at a boundary, the button can be pressed to see if the boundary is a secret door. Pressing also skips the turn.

The game ends when the player runs out of health. Health is regained by eating food found as items on the ground, and will also slowly regenerate each few steps/turns as long as the player has food. If they run out of food, they will rapidly lose health until they eat food or die. If the player eats too much food (the "F" counter on the HUD exceeds or equal to 80), they will slow down. Continuously eating more food (F=99) will also result in death.

Gold collected in the game is not used for any purchases. Rather, the amount of gold collected determines the quality of the funeral the player will receive when they die. The game can be continued as many times as the player wishes, however the player will start again from every fifth floor reached; for example, continuing after dying on the thirteenth floor will restart the player from the tenth floor.

Magic items are randomly color-coded on each play.

Versions

The version originally released for the Sega Game Toshokan service is a noticeably early version of the game with simpler presentation. For the physical Western release, the game received significant changes such as a more detailed title screen with animation, and replacing the instruction screen with a playable prologue that explains the game's story to the player.

If the Western version of the game is played on a Japanese system, the title and text will be translated to Japanese. This version would later become the basis for the Japan-exclusive re-releases as part of Game no Kanzume Vol. 2 and Game no Kanzume Otokuyou.

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Fatal Labyrinth	Fatal Labyrinth
English (US)	Fatal Labyrinth	Fatal Labyrinth
Japanese	死の迷宮	Shi no Meikyu: Labyrinth of Death

Production credits

• Planner: Carol
• Programmer: Mr. Lee, Papa
• Designer: Big Island, Azarashi, Sato (Tokumei)
• Music & Sound Composer: E Fugu
• Thanks to: Large Torrent, Hou-Ou

Sega 1990

Source:

In-game credits

Digital manuals

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  Steam manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Fatal Labyrinth/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Game Players (US) #0304: "Vol. 3 No. 4 April 1991" (1991-0x-xx)

Physical scans

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 40 Aktueller Software Markt (DE) 52 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 50 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 9 (RU) 80 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 68 Games-X (UK) PAL 56 Joystick (FR) 76 Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK) PAL 65 Mega (UK) PAL 59 Mega Force (FR) PAL 50 Mega Play (US) NTSC-U 45 MegaTech (UK) 51 Mean Machines Sega (UK) 51 Player One (FR) 76 Sega Power (UK) 55 Sega Power (UK) PAL 25 Sega Power (UK) 39 Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-U 68 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 58 Video Games (DE) 60

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Fatal Labyrinth

Mega Drive, US
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Cart Manual PCB

Mega Drive, EU
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Cart Manual PCB

Mega Drive, AU
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Mega Drive, CA
Cover

Technical information

Main article: Fatal Labyrinth/Technical information.

External links

• Fatal Labyrinth on Steam