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It was a title released only in Japan, but in 2023 it was distributed on the Nintendo Switch Online service Family Computer Nintendo Classics, and was released outside Japan for the first time.
A port to arcades for the Nintendo VS. System, VS. Tower of Babel, was released in 1986 only in Japan.
While the game remained exclusive to Japan for several years, it received its first worldwide release on June 5, 2023 via the Nintendo Classics service, under the name Mystery Tower.
The logo on the title screen read "BABEL", but in ported versions from the Wii U Virtual Console release distributed in 2014 onward it was replaced with "THE TOWER OF BABEL".
Development was done by Namco, and the project was planned by Hiroshima Nagashima, who had worked on the company's arcade game Sky Kid (1985), the music was by Norio Nakagata, and the character design was by Hiroshi Fuji.
The backgrounds are also worked out with considerable care, with a waterfall, outer space, a Namco room (graphics from classic older titles appear in the background), a jungle, a castle in the sky, and others.
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