Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (1987) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei is the first game of the Megami Tensei series of role-playing video games. It is based on the novel Digital Devil Story by Aya Nishitani. Although Atlus has published a…

11 September 1987

What Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei is

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Atlus and released in 1987. It was published by Namcot. It is available on Family Computer and Sharp X1.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei is the first game of the Megami Tensei series of role-playing video games. It is based on the novel Digital Devil Story by Aya Nishitani. Although Atlus has published a majority of the series, the first two games were created by Atlus but published by Namco (known as Namcot at the time), after it bought the video game rights to the Japanese horror novel series by Aya Nishitani, the first named Digital Devil Story. This game is a role-playing video game that features extensive dungeon crawling and focuses heavily on demons, which have gone on to become a trademark of the series.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror. 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 second of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II in 1990.

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