{"id":1734,"date":"2022-06-01T10:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T10:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/01\/classic-maze-rpg-the-tower-of-druaga-is-this-weeks-arcade-archives-game\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T10:25:58","slug":"classic-maze-rpg-the-tower-of-druaga-is-this-weeks-arcade-archives-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/01\/classic-maze-rpg-the-tower-of-druaga-is-this-weeks-arcade-archives-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Maze RPG &#8216;The Tower of Druaga&#8217; Is This Week&#8217;s Arcade Archives Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No need for a key to play this.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did anyone else play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/baten_kaitos_eternal_wings_and_the_lost_ocean\">Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean<\/a> and think to themselves during a particular dungeon, &#8220;huh, what <em>is<\/em> that pixelated maze room full of slimes a reference to?&#8221; Well, maybe it was just this writer here, but you can now find out the game that inspired that dungeon!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/arcade_archives_the_tower_of_druaga\">The Tower of Druaga<\/a> is an arcade RPG from 1984 that sees you controlling the knight Gilgamesh and climbing 60 floors of a demon&#8217;s tower to save the maiden Ki. The game was designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/arcade_archives_xevious\">Xevious<\/a>&#8216; Masanobu End\u014d, and has influence many action RPGs since its release, such as the <strong>Ys<\/strong> series, <strong>Hydalide<\/strong>, <strong>Dragon Slayer<\/strong>, and even the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/legend_of_zelda\">The Legend of Zelda<\/a>! So it&#8217;s an extremely important game.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/classic-maze-rpg-the-tower-of-druaga-is-this-weeks-arcade-archives-game\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Classic Maze RPG &#8216;The Tower of Druaga&#8217; Is This Week&#8217;s Arcade Archives Game<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>No need for a key to play this.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did anyone else play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/baten_kaitos_eternal_wings_and_the_lost_ocean\">Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean<\/a> and think to themselves during a particular dungeon, &#8220;huh, what <em>is<\/em> that pixelated maze room full of slimes a reference to?&#8221; Well, maybe it was just this writer here, but you can now find out the game that inspired that dungeon!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/arcade_archives_the_tower_of_druaga\">The Tower of Druaga<\/a> is an arcade RPG from 1984 that sees you controlling the knight Gilgamesh and climbing 60 floors of a demon&#8217;s tower to save the maiden Ki. The game was designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/arcade_archives_xevious\">Xevious<\/a>&#8216; Masanobu End\u014d, and has influence many action RPGs since its release, such as the <strong>Ys<\/strong> series, <strong>Hydalide<\/strong>, <strong>Dragon Slayer<\/strong>, and even the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/legend_of_zelda\">The Legend of Zelda<\/a>! So it&#8217;s an extremely important game.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/classic-maze-rpg-the-tower-of-druaga-is-this-weeks-arcade-archives-game\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}