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Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei

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…

1 July 1987

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Telenet Japan, released 1 July 1987 on FM-7, MSX, PC-8800 Series and Sharp X1.

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What Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei is

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Telenet Japan and released in 1987. It is available on FM-7, MSX, PC-8800 Series and Sharp X1.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei is the first of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei in 1987.

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When did Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei come out?
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei was released on 1 July 1987 for FM-7, MSX, PC-8800 Series and Sharp X1.

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