Golden Castle
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Description
Equipped with a suit of armor, sword, and shield, you must battle through the castle in this side-scroller. Strike or block the different objects coming at you. Fight various opponents, breaking off pieces of their armor, while defeating them. Collect new swords and shields along the way, and hit the magic crystal balls to repair your armor.
Golden Castle was produced by Taito in 1986.
Taito released 487 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967. Taito was based in Japan.
Other machines made by Taito during the time period Golden Castle was produced include: Lady Master of Kung Fu, Typhoon Gal, Super Dead Heat, Onna Sanshirou, Metal Soldier Isaac 2, Alcon, Arkanoid, Battle Lane Vol. 5, Big Event Golf, and Bobble Bobble
Specs
| Name | Golden Castle |
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| Developer | Taito (Japan) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Type | Videogame |
| KLOV/MOG # | 7969 |
| Class | Wide Release |
| Genre | Scrolling Fighter |
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| Conversion Class | unique |
| # Simultaneous Players | 1 |
| # Maximum Players | 2 |
| Game Play | Alternating |
| Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
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| Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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Game Introduction
This is a bootleg or prototype of Taito's Gladiator. There are no discernable differences in gameplay, except for a nudity graphic feature (see trivia). Golden Castle has a unique title screen also.
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Trivia
This game has a nudity feature not present in Gladiator. The female warrior Irene is shown with bare breasts when defeated by removing all layers of her chest armor (in Gladiator she still wears a bikini top when defeated this way). This feature is also present in the Japanese boardset Oogonsiro.
Miscellaneous
COPY OF: Gladiator
VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Golden Castle Census
There are 14,769 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,481 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,607 machines (6,903 unique titles).
Rare - There are 2 known instances of this machine owned by Golden Castle collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 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.
This game ranks a 1 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]
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