Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (1987) Part 1 - The First Atlus RPG | Video Games over Time

Welcome back to Video Games Over Time! I’m ballerscuba, and today we begin exploring Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei, one of the most important Japanese RPGs ever created and the beginning of the Megami Tensei franchise. Long before Shin Megami Tensei and Persona, this ambitious Famicom RPG combined dungeon crawling, demon summoning, mythology, and negotiation mechanics into something unlike almost anything else in 1987. In this episode: 📜 The origins of the Digital Devil Story novels by Aya Nishitani 🎮 The early history of Atlus and their partnership with Bandai Namco Entertainment 🧠 How Wizardry inspired the game’s dungeon-crawling design 😈 The origins of the iconic demon negotiation system 📖 Reading and discussing the game’s original manual story 🕹️ Beginning our gameplay playthrough of the Famicom classic Directed by Kouji Okada, Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei follows Akemi Nakajima and Yumiko Shirasagi as they battle demons unleashed upon the world by Lucifer and venture into the deadly Devilopolis labyrinth. Released for the Famicom in 1987, the game would lay the foundation for one of gaming’s most influential RPG franchises. If you enjoy retro RPGs, Japanese gaming history, Atlus games, or dungeon crawlers, you’re in the right place. 👍 Like, comment, and subscribe for more episodes of Video Games Over Time! 🔸👉Stay Connected with my social media👇👇 🔸Instagram:   / ballerscuba   🔸Patreon:   / ballerscuba   #MegamiTensei #ShinMegamiTensei #Atlus #RetroGaming #JRPG #Famicom #Persona #GamingHistory #DungeonCrawler #VideoGamesOverTime 0:00 Intro 0:14 Megami Tensei Backstory 4:59 Megami Tensei Manual 6:52 Megami Tensei Gameplay 32:58 Outro