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Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom

Tower of Doom is a side-scrolling arcade game featuring four different characters (cleric, dwarf, elf, fighter) fighting iconic Dungeons & Dragons monsters. Bosses include a troll that regenerates unless…

3 December 1994

Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Capcom, released 3 December 1994 on Arcade.

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What Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom is

Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Capcom and released in 1994. It is available on Arcade only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Tower of Doom is a side-scrolling arcade game featuring four different characters (cleric, dwarf, elf, fighter) fighting iconic Dungeons & Dragons monsters. Bosses include a troll that regenerates unless burned, a large black dragon, the dreaded Shadow Elf (Mystara's equivalent of the drow), a beholder, the optional superboss Flamewing (a great wyrm red dragon) and the final boss Deimos (an archlich). At points in the game the players are presented with a choice of paths to take to continue progress. Each path goes to a different area, and it is impossible to visit every area in a single play. The gameplay is more technical than the average on beat'em up games. In addition to the usual…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Dungeons & Dragons series

Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom is the 37th of 140 entries we hold in the Dungeons & Dragons series. The next entry was Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse in 1994.

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What it launched against

Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom launched on 3 December 1994, within three weeks of Donkey Kong Country, Tekken, Umihara Kawase and Breath of Fire II.

Released around the same time: Donkey Kong Country, Tekken, Umihara Kawase, Breath of Fire II.

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When did Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom come out?
Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom was released on 3 December 1994 for Arcade.

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