| Deadly Towers | |
|---|---|
 North American cover art | |
| Developer(s) | Lenar Tamtex |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Designer(s) | Junichi Mizutari R. Nagasu |
| Composer(s) | Yoshinobu Kasukawa |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo Entertainment System |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Deadly Towers is an action role-playing game co-developed by Lenar and Tamtex for Irem as a software title for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It was released in Japan on December 15, 1986, and in North America in September of the following year.
In Japan, Deadly Towers was titled Mashō (魔鐘), literally meaning "Evil Bell". It is a pun of the word mashō (魔性), meaning "devilishness", and in keeping with this theme, the Japanese cartridge contained a red LED at the top which illuminated when turned on.[1] The game's English-language title was intended to be Hell's Bells, but that name couldn't be used.[2] In North America, it was one of Irem's three titles released in September 1987 on the NES, along with Spelunker and Sqoon.
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