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1987

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei

DeveloperTelenet Japan
PlatformsPC-8800 Series · Sharp X1 · FM-7 · …

About Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei is a 1987 role-playing game developed by Telenet Japan, part of the Megami Tensei series. It released on PC-8800 Series, Sharp X1 and FM-7.

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei is an action RPG developed by Telenet Japan, based on a manga of the same name. Despite sharing a name and source material with the Atlus developed Famicom game, it is an entirely different game.

The player is tasked with traveling through the Makai, which is divided between eleven worlds themed after the Sephirot. Each of the worlds contains eight floors, though they are not always arranged in ascending order.

Each world, other than the starting world Malkuth and the center world Da'at, is further divided into "good" and "evil" versions, for a total of 160 floors.

Story

The protagonist, Akemi Nakajima, must be plunged into a massive dungeon to safe the world and Yumiko Shirasagi.

Screenshots

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei - screenshot
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei - screenshot

Videos

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Release Date

PC-8800 SeriesJul 01, 1987
MSXJul 01, 1987
Sharp X1Aug 01, 1987
FM-7Sep 01, 1987

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