Dark Seal

Description

Fantasy hack and slash game with a lot of digital speech. Nice graphics with a Gauntlet-like gameplay. Up to four people can play at the same time.

Dark Seal was produced by Data East in 1990.

Data East released 174 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1979. Data East was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Data East during the time period Dark Seal was produced include: Playboy, Act-Fancer: Cybernetick Hyper Weapon, Hippodrome, Kuhga - Operation Code 'Vapor Trail', Fighting Fantasy, Back To The Future, Al Unser Jr.'s Turbo Racing, Boulder Dash, Phantom of the Opera, and Simpsons

Specs

Name	Dark Seal
Developer	Data East (Japan)
Year	1990
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	7521
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Fighter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings	Dark Seal Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	4
# Maximum Players	4
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2
Sound	Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Video Clips

Gate of Doom - Full Game

Game Play

Fill the magic gauge by killing monsters. Once full, you can cast different spells - wind, fire, thunder, medusa, invisibility, rats, etc - that last approximately 40 seconds. Bosses consist of dragons and large monsters.

Dark Seal KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Miscellaneous

This game is also known as Gate Of Doom.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Dark Seal Census

There are 14,970 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,553 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 165,388 machines (6,943 unique titles).

Common - There are 25 known instances of this machine owned by Dark Seal collectors who are active members. Of these, 25 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Dark Seal circuit board set.

This game ranks a 8 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Legacy

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