The Tower

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The Tower
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: OPeNBooK
Developer: OPeNBooK
Original system(s): PC
Sound driver: SCSP (1 track)
Genre: Simulation
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1996-03-01 ¥6,8006,800 T-21601G
Non-Sega versions 3DO Macintosh Windows PC

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The Tower (ザ・タワー) is a simulation game released for the Sega Saturn.

Gameplay

The Tower is a "tower" simulation game similar in design to Maxis' SimCity (a game which inspired Saito). Players essentially construct a tower, managing its content and transport systems in a bid to keep residents happy and make money.

History

It was originally designed by Yutaka "Yoot" Saito - his first venture at his company OPeNBooK and published for a variety of platforms in 1994. The majority of ports remained exclusive to Japan, however was seen in the west as SimTower, published by Maxis.

Sega would later publish a PC/Mac sequel, Yoot Tower, and a second sequel on the Game Boy Advance, The Tower SP.

Magazine articles

Main article: The Tower/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Main article: The Tower/Promotional material.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Based on 0 review

Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 75 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 68 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 77 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 79

	75
Based on 4 reviews

The Tower

Saturn, JP
Cover
Spinecard Disc

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	492,871,008	1996-01-29	CD-ROM (JP)	T-21601G V1.000