It's a "solve the puzzle to get to the end of each room with increasing complexity" game. There are I think 34 rooms in the first game. There are 3 installments. Spent about 30 min on Room 7. Very enjoyable and satisfying. Either pick up blocks, kick them, place them where you need but if you drop down while holding a block it will fall on top of you and kill you. You can soft lock yourself out of completion so there is a reset buttom combo
>go into 90s photoshop >paste low-quality jpeg of pyramid photo >pick gaudiest font you can find >PYRAMID MAGIC >voila
i actually thought this was fake at first
this cover looks fake as frick
turns out it is fake: https://segaretro.org/Pyramid_Magic
it was only released via a modem connected service: https://segaretro.org/Sega_Game_Toshokan
Great. Nice anon. Looking forward to playing it when I get home from work too. I was just scrolling through my huge ROM library and I thought "Eh, pyramids are cool...guess I'll try this" and I ended up playing it all night and wanted to share the fun
this cover looks fake as frick
turns out it is fake: https://segaretro.org/Pyramid_Magic
it was only released via a modem connected service: https://segaretro.org/Sega_Game_Toshokan
So three of the games in this series are lost media. The joys of digital-only media. >Pyramid Magic Editor (lost) >Pyramid Magic Sōshuuhen (lost) >Pyramid Magic Yokokuhen (lost)
What made it to preservation are the three numbered games which are meant to be experienced as a continuous game (adventurer goes into pyramid, meets pharaoh ghost, completes tablet, brings out fragile water jar -actually a gameplay mechanic- , oasis appears) and the "Special" version which is the first game with better graphics, slightly touched up harder versions of the same level layouts, and a bad ending.
There's a Sega CD version of "Special" with redbook audio too as part of a compilation.
Loved Penguin Land 3 on the same service and wondered why there's so few puzzles (30) and not more games of the same genre from Sega, and this is the first time I hear of this. Thank you anon, truly ^^
I love this kind of puzzle platformers. Just recently I was looking for something like Solomon Key (1,2,Monster Rancher Explorer) and even went as far as look up japanese fansites for the extra harder maps shared in jp manuals / magazines for the level editor.
This one's difficulty doesn't hold back and I love it (still stuck in the very first levels, might make up for the short -not so short? 120 levels after all- length) and the third one's fragile water jug idea was a nice unique twist. The moveset is surprisingly lending itself to different uses (like fitting the blocks halfway a block distance, or in 1 block sized gaps vertically) so there's that depth that sets it apart from average puzzlers. I'm still discovering it, but it's a good first impression so far. 3 has simpler levels but is much harder lol
Update about the lost media part: The last two games in the list Soushuuhen / Yokokuhen are likely just Special and a trial version, so it might be just the level editor that's truly lost (a true shame, that)
Wait, not Special. Just the normal version.
Tell us more about the game, anon. I'm not going to Google that
It's a "solve the puzzle to get to the end of each room with increasing complexity" game. There are I think 34 rooms in the first game. There are 3 installments. Spent about 30 min on Room 7. Very enjoyable and satisfying. Either pick up blocks, kick them, place them where you need but if you drop down while holding a block it will fall on top of you and kill you. You can soft lock yourself out of completion so there is a reset buttom combo
Now we're talking. You really got me interested. I'll buy it today.
Let me know how you like it fren
Painful samegay
>go into 90s photoshop
>paste low-quality jpeg of pyramid photo
>pick gaudiest font you can find
>PYRAMID MAGIC
>voila
i actually thought this was fake at first
Word Art SOVL
It's a good game though
see
I tried this game and really liked it thanks to you, OP.
Great. Nice anon. Looking forward to playing it when I get home from work too. I was just scrolling through my huge ROM library and I thought "Eh, pyramids are cool...guess I'll try this" and I ended up playing it all night and wanted to share the fun
>Underrated Kino
Underrated kys
this cover looks fake as frick
turns out it is fake: https://segaretro.org/Pyramid_Magic
it was only released via a modem connected service: https://segaretro.org/Sega_Game_Toshokan
Very interesting. It explains why the menus are only in Japanese. So a physical version of this game never existed. Thanks for checking it out
So three of the games in this series are lost media. The joys of digital-only media.
>Pyramid Magic Editor (lost)
>Pyramid Magic Sōshuuhen (lost)
>Pyramid Magic Yokokuhen (lost)
What made it to preservation are the three numbered games which are meant to be experienced as a continuous game (adventurer goes into pyramid, meets pharaoh ghost, completes tablet, brings out fragile water jar -actually a gameplay mechanic- , oasis appears) and the "Special" version which is the first game with better graphics, slightly touched up harder versions of the same level layouts, and a bad ending.
There's a Sega CD version of "Special" with redbook audio too as part of a compilation.
Loved Penguin Land 3 on the same service and wondered why there's so few puzzles (30) and not more games of the same genre from Sega, and this is the first time I hear of this. Thank you anon, truly ^^
Awesome and fascinating. Your post made me happy. What do you think of the difficulty?
I love this kind of puzzle platformers. Just recently I was looking for something like Solomon Key (1,2,Monster Rancher Explorer) and even went as far as look up japanese fansites for the extra harder maps shared in jp manuals / magazines for the level editor.
This one's difficulty doesn't hold back and I love it (still stuck in the very first levels, might make up for the short -not so short? 120 levels after all- length) and the third one's fragile water jug idea was a nice unique twist. The moveset is surprisingly lending itself to different uses (like fitting the blocks halfway a block distance, or in 1 block sized gaps vertically) so there's that depth that sets it apart from average puzzlers. I'm still discovering it, but it's a good first impression so far. 3 has simpler levels but is much harder lol
Update about the lost media part: The last two games in the list Soushuuhen / Yokokuhen are likely just Special and a trial version, so it might be just the level editor that's truly lost (a true shame, that)