The Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel
Also known as: Babel (JP original title screen), Mystery Tower (INT) Developer: Namco Publishers: Namco (JP original), Bandai Namco (INT) Platform: NES Released internationally: June 5, 2023 (Nintendo Switch Online) Released in JP: July 18, 1986 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences.

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Developer Credits

There is a copyright string inside the ROM, along with the name of the programmer, which is also used to see if the game performed a hard or a soft reset:

COPYRIGHT 1986 NAMCO LTD.ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
MR TAKASI FUKAWA

The copyright string has been blanked out in Namcot Collection version 3.0.1, leaving only the name of the programmer.

Regional Differences

The Japanese Nintendo Switch Online release changes the title screen to "The Tower of Babel" which was previously present in the Japanese Wii U Virtual Console release and Namcot Collection. The international Nintendo Switch Online release of the game localizes the game for the first time as "Mystery Tower", complete with an altered title screen logo (although the copyright information is unchanged from the original Famicom release).

Original	Nintendo Switch Online (Japan)	Nintendo Switch Online (International)

Revisional Differences

In the Namcot Collection, aside from the obvious copyright change, the title screen was updated in version 3.0.1 of the collection to read "The Tower of Babel" instead of simply "Babel". This change was also present in the Wii U Virtual Console release.

Original	Namcot Collection 1.0.0-3.0.0	Namcot Collection 3.0.1+