The Castle

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The Castle
System(s): SG-1000
Publisher: Sega
Developer:
Genre: Action

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
SG-1000
JP
¥5,0005,000 G-1046
SG-1000
TW

The Castle (ザ・キャッスル) is video game developed by ASCII and released for the SG-1000 in 1986. It is a port of an MSX game of the same name, and is largely identical due to the similar hardware between the two machines. Due to the decline of the SG-1000 and emergence of the Sega Master System, the game was not released in Europe or Australia like many other SG-1000 games.

The Castle was the second to last SG-1000 game to be released commercially by Sega on a cart, preceded by Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes and the last game to be released under a G-10XX product code. The Castle was released on a packaging more akin to Sega Mark III cartridges than prior SG-1000/SC-3000 cartridges, although it uses a "Sega Cartridge" branding rather than the "Gold Cartridge" branding that was typical of Mark III releases (likely due to the game having a ROM size of only 32KB with 8 KB of RAM, rather than the 1-Megabit ROM size or larger that were typical of Gold Cartridge releases).

The game has a fairly standard plot of rescuing a princess from a castle, though the game itself was considered very large for the time. It also contains a map system similar to that of later Metroid and Castlevania games.

The Castle was followed by the MSX/NES game Castle Excellent later in the year. The MSX version was also brought independently to the SG-1000 in Taiwan.

Physical scans

SG-1000, JP
The Castle SG-1000 JP Top.jpg
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The Castle SG-1000 JP Bottom.jpg
Cover
The Castle SG-1000 JP Carttop.jpg
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Cart
CastleSGJPManual.pdf
Manual
SG-1000, TW

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