"Upon second look, this game was not programmed by Apes..."

(It was programmed by chimpanzees)Oi Vey, what happened to Deadly Towers?! The NES player's guide very quietly included this one in the index at the back of the book, listing it as a great adventure game. If I'm not mistaken this may have been the very first password game on the NES. So why has this game earned the dubious title of WORST EVER on several NES websites? Why the awful ratings and constant ranting of how bad a game could be? To look at the graphics and the storyline, it doesn't look THAT bad...well brother, let me tell ya, it is!Your ''hero'', Prince Meyer, has to battle the evil force of blobs to accomplish (something) which he does by running around like a fool in the Deadly Towers ( even though I think there is only one Deadly Tower) for hours. I have no idea who was put in charge of quality control, but this is a game that is quite literally no fun to play. You wouldn't think that was possible, as even bad Atari games are fun to play for a little while. Nope, Deadly Towers is clearly one of the worst ever made games--Let's go to the ratings!

Graphics=1.0 It looks like the design team decided to only make one character, the Prince, have any kind of detail. The rest of the game has atrocious backgrounds and stupid looking enemies. I have no idea what the final boss looks like, but I'm sure it's stupid too. After seeing how bad they are, I'm SURE no one play tested this game.

Sound=1.4 The ultimate in not taking advantage of the sound capacities of the NES. It ranks right up there with Tutkahamen for the Atari 2600. The songs are similar to a triumphant medieval ballad, with out the triumph. There is the little WHOOP of your sword and BLURGS of the bouncing blobs.

Gameplay=0.9 An almost unplayable game. I have no knowledge of anyone who has played all the way through this puppy, and I pray that no one ever has. I was generous and gave it the tenth of a point because you can kid of move your character around on the screen. A waste of silicon and plastic. On the positive side, you CAN move around, albeit very slowly. Your Prince looks like he is one of those “special” people.

Challenge=9.0 Why would you play this game? It's not so much hard as it is stupid, so I won't even give it a score because you should not even be playing it! Revised—OK, maybe you should try it just to gauge your threshold for pain! But it stinks.

Overall=1.0 I can't think of anything worse at this point, but I hear mutant virus and a few others are really terrible. One of two games to receive the lowly ''1'' rating (Heroes of the Lance being the other.) As a sidenote, IREM also made Sqoon, a kind of cool submarine shooter.Yuck yuck yuck yuck!*
BRU'S MUST GET OMETER*=8.5 Needed for the crappy collection series.

Reviewer's Score: 1/10, Originally Posted: 03/25/00, Updated 03/25/00