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Shadow of the Beast
System(s): Super CD-ROM²
Publisher: Psygnosis, Victor Musical Industries (JP)
Developer:
Supporting companies:
Distributor: Turbo Technologies, Inc. (US)
Genre: Action































Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Super CD-ROM²
JP 		JCCD2008
Super CD-ROM²
US 		TGXCD1018
Non-NEC versions
Commodore Amiga
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
Atari ST
Commodore 64
Commodore 64
FM Towns/FM Towns Marty
FM Towns
Lynx
Lynx
Sega Master System
Master System
Sega Mega Drive
Mega Drive
ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrum

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Shadow of the Beast, known as Shadow of the Beast: Mashou no Okite (シャドー･オブ･ザ･ビースト 魔性の掟) in Japan, is an action game developed by Reflections Interactive for the Commodore Amiga and published by Psygnosis. It was brought to a variety of systems, including Super CD-ROM² hardware in 1992. It was followed by Shadow of the Beast II and Shadow of the Beast III, neither of which were released on a NEC system.

Story

The player controls the Beast Messenger. Born a human child and kidnapped at a young age by mages who serve the Beast Lord, the Beast Messenger was transformed into a monster and had all his memories wiped to enter a lifetime of servitude. However, suddenly, all his memories return to him, and he now seeks revenge and to escape.

Gameplay

History

Development

The Super CD-ROM² version of Shadow of the Beast was developed by DMA Design, alongside a separate version for the Commodore 64. In June 1990, during development of projects such as Lemmings and Cutiepoo, Psygnosis had sent programmer Dave Jones a contract for a PC Engine version of Shadow of the Beast. Dave was in love with the console at the time and so wanted to leap at the chance to program the game himself, however fellow programmer Mike Dailly protested that he should be allowed to do it as the PC Engine's CPU was his speciality. Once the hardware had arrived, Dave by then allowed Mike to program the game while he continued development of Lemmings.[1]

Mike started programming the basic framework on July 23, which took him one week, allowing proper development of the project to begin on July 30.[1] This grew to become his most hated project as he grew increasingly frustrated with the official software development kit to the point of writing his own SDK with Brian Watson helping out with some code he had used in DMA Debug, spending many late nights over the span of a few weeks taking apart the official SDK for reference. While this custom SDK was used for main development, map editing was still handled using NEC's official graphical tools.[2]

Versions

Localised names

Also known as
Language Localised Name English Translation
English Shadow of the Beast Shadow of the Beast
Japanese シャドー･オブ･ザ･ビースト 魔性の掟 Shadow of the Beast: Mashou no Okite

Production credits

  • Produced by: Psygnosis and NEC
  • Written by: DMA Design
  • Based on an original Amiga game by: Reflections
  • Director: Dave Jones
  • Project Manager: Brian Watson
  • Programming by: Michael Dailly
  • Animation Player by: Russell Kay and Brian Watson
  • Production: Steve Hammond, John White, Martyn Chudley
  • Intro Graphics by: Jeff Bramfitt, Mike Waterworth
  • End Sequence by: Jeff Bramfitt, Garvan Corbett
  • Animated Sequences: Jeff Bramfitt, Lee Carus, Nikki Westcott
  • Actors: Mike Waterworth, Garvin Corbett, Nikki Westcott, Lee Carus, Neil Thompson, Gary Burley, Dianne Walsh
  • Backgrounds: Mike Waterworth, Garvan Corbett, Lee Carus, Gary Burley
  • Miscellaneous Graphics: Steve Hammond, Mike Dailly
  • Music by: D.C. Productions Ltd.
  • Gofer: Jane Donald, Nick Burcombe
  • Play Testers: John White, Steven Reid, Dave Jones, Scott Traynor, Steve Hammond, Me
  • Tea Boy: Scott Johnston
  • Special Thanks to: Andrew White, Dave Haliey, Gary Timmons, Jamie Grant, Jill Jamieson, Mark Ireland, Stacey Jamieson, The Fileserver, A piece of lime
  • Biscuit Muncher: Russell Kay
  • If at first you dont succeed: Cheat
No dragons were harmed during the making of this game
A DMA Design production MCMXCII
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In-game credits

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Magazine articles

Main article: Shadow of the Beast/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Super CD-ROM², JP
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Cover
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Spinecard
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Disc
Super CD-ROM², US
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Cover
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Disc

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Super CD-ROM²
 ?
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
CD-ROM (JP)
Super CD-ROM²
 ?
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
CD-ROM (US)

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.javalemmings.com/DMA/DMA3_5.htm (Wayback Machine: 2007-01-08 08:22)
  2. ↑ http://www.javalemmings.com/DMA/DMA4_1.htm (Wayback Machine: 2011-07-13 09:13)


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