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1990 · Advance Communication · Adventure · Post-apocalyptic

Last Armageddon

The humans who breathed the toxin-filled air on the Earth's surface became one with the Earth and kept dissolving. The history of humanity ended and dominion of the planet returned to the demons. These mutant creatures did not depend on oxygen to survive. Meanwhile, an army of robots wage World War IV against the demons in order to conquer what is now known as Makai - the Demon World.

Released
30 August 1990
Platforms
FM TownsMS-DOSMSXNESPC-8800 SeriesPC-9800 SeriesSharp X1Sharp X68000TurboGrafx-16Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD
Genres
AdventurePost-apocalypticRole-playingScience
Developers
Advance Communication
Publishers
Yutaka
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
First personBird view / Isometric
Themes
Science fiction
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

About

Last Armageddon (ラストハルマゲドン, Rasuto Harumagedon) is a 1988 post-apocalyptic role-playing video game for the NEC PC-8801, MSX, X68000, PC-98, PC Engine CD-ROM², and Famicom. The game was exclusively in the Japanese language until an English translation patch was created for the Nintendo Famicom.

The game had a sequel, After Armageddon Gaiden, released for the Sega CD in 1994. Working Designs planned to release the game in North America as A Side Story of Armageddon in 1995, but the localization was cancelled due to the demise of the Sega CD system.

Keywords

  • aliens
  • world war ii - ww2
  • post-apocalyptic
  • dinosaurs
  • evolution
  • bloody
  • magic
  • turn-based
  • artifacts
  • dystopian
  • robots
  • 2.5d

Media

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Both the demon soldiers and their enemies may cast magic spells or physical attacks. Some magic attacks have the ability to inflict poison damage on any of the player's creatures. If a creature is poisoned, the player must spare some of their creature's magic points in order to cure the affected monster through the "Kuizzu" (キーウッズ) spell. Letting the creature remain poisoned for a certain amount of time will eventually lead to its death.

The game plays like a role-playing video game and graves of fallen demons by the home base remind the player of the situation of the game. When a player first starts the game, they should not go to the right, as experienced monsters lie there in a stadium-shaped power station that is in the southeastern corner of the map. It will take a foursome of level 5-10 characters in order to defeat the robots inside the dome. As characters advance in level, the monster images change slightly. By the time the characters advance to levels 17 through 34 (the maximum possible levels), the monsters will look completely slimy and the fusion of the cells will get ugly.

Story

The humans, who breathed the toxin-filled air on Earth's surface, became one with the Earth and kept dissolving. The history of humanity ended and dominion of the planet returned to the demons. These mutant creatures did not depend on oxygen to survive. Therefore, they were able to breathe the air and use the land.

Meanwhile, an army of robots wage World War IV against the demons in order to conquer what is now known as Makai - the Demon World. These robots came to the planet on a wave of energy that created an explosion that turned the world into a wasteland. Much later in the game, concurrent themes including Adolf Hitler, war, creating a perfect race of people, and the destruction of humanity in the year 1999 are revealed to the player inside one of the robot's main bases.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Sharp X11 August 1988Japan
PC-8800 Series31 December 1988Japan
MSX31 December 1988Japan
Sharp X680001 March 1989Japan
FM Towns1 July 1989Japan
Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD30 August 1990Japan
NES10 December 1990Japan
PC-9800 Series31 December 1990Japan

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