This is Console History, a special sub-series of my more general History Lessons series, covering console role-playing games, action role-playing games, Metroidvanias, and action-adventure games in nominally chronological order starting in the late 1980s. The chronology is garbled in the beginning as the scope of the series expanded, but it gets more organized later on. As always, you may click on images to view larger versions.
The Great Console History Reorganization continues, as I go back to fill in games I missed the first time around. Last time that was Ganbare Goemon!Karakuri Douchuu, the first console entry in the Ganbare Goemon series. If I’d had my timeline in order, after that would have been Metroid, and then our current entry: HummingBirdSoft’s Deep Dungeon: Madou Senki, a dungeon crawler role-playing game released on December 19, 1986 in Japan for the Famicom Disk System (for details on the Famicom Disk System, see my post about The Mysterious Murasame Castle), and ported to the MSX home computer in 1988. It went on to spawn three sequels, all Japan-only, which I hope to cover in this series.