Seal of the Pharaoh

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Seal of the Pharaoh
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Developer(s) System Sacom
Publisher(s)
Producer(s) Haruo Ogawa
Shuichi Koyama
Composer(s) Haruo Hosoya
Platform(s) 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
Release
Genre(s) Role-playing video game
Mode(s) Single-player

Seal of the Pharaoh is a video game developed by ASK Kodanosha Co. / System Sacom and published by Panasonic for the 3DO.

Contents

Gameplay

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Gameplay screenshot

Seal of the Pharaoh is a first-person game of dungeon exploration.

Synopsis

Development and release

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "The instruction book helpfully supplies maps to the first four levels, but there's not a lot of variance to the scenery no matter how deep you delve, and its brightly lit corridors reveal a total lack of atmosphere or any distinctive style. It's competent, but no better." [4]

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