is a pinball

Pinball

Pinball is a type of arcade game, usually coin-operated, where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass-covered case called a pinball machine. The primary objective of the game is to score as many points as possible...

 video game by Tengen

Tengen (company)

Tengen was a video game publisher and developer that was created by arcade game manufacturer Atari Games.-History:Atari had been split into two distinct companies. Atari Corporation was responsible for computer and console games and hardware and owned the rights to the Atari brand for these domains...

, released for Sega Genesis in 1993

1993 in video gaming

-Events:*March — In Sweden, the Swedish video game magazine Super PLAY starts. The original name is Super Power.*Midway Games embroiled in controversy for its game Mortal Kombat from 1992 when the game is launched for video game consoles in 1993....

 (a Sega Master System

Sega Master System

The is a third-generation video game console that was manufactured and released by Sega in 1985 in Japan , 1986 in North America and 1987 in Europe....

 version was also originally planned) as a sequel

Sequel

A sequel is a narrative, documental, or other work of literature, film, theatre, or music that continues the story of or expands upon issues presented in some previous work...

 to Devil's Crush

Devil's Crush

Devil's Crush is a pinball video game developed by NAXAT Soft for the TurboGrafx-16. The second installment in the Crush Pinball series after Alien Crush, the game has an eerie occult theme with skulls, skeletons, and demons. It was later followed by Jaki Crush and Alien Crush Returns...

(Dragon's Fury).

Plot

In the game's backstory, a villainous sorceress Darzel has captured three dragon-slayers: Kragor the warrior, Flavia the female barbarian, and the good sorceress Rina. The player's role is to battle black magic and monsters using magic balls (pinball balls of the game) as a weapon on the quest to rescue the captive heroes, and then them lead in their fight against Darzel and her evil dragon consort to free the village of Kalfin's Keep.

Gameplay

There are several various stages and bonus/boss stages in the game. However, none of them is attempting to emulate an actual pinball machine like in most other pinball games and the game only uses basic pinball mechanics.

Reception

Dragon's Revenge received the score of 8 out of 10 in the review by Video Games & Computer Entertainment

Video Games & Computer Entertainment

VideoGames & Computer Entertainment was an American magazine dedicated to covering video games on computers, home consoles and arcades...

("video pinball meets Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...

 (...) a cool twist on pinball"), the score of 3.5 out of 5 by GamePro

GamePro

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("a solid game for pinball fans and gamers who like fast action [and] liked Dragon's Fury"), and 46 out of 100 by Game Players

Game Players

Game Players was a monthly video game magazine founded by Robert C. Lock and published by Signal Research, in Greensboro, North Carolina. The original publication was titled Game Players Strategy to Nintendo Games...

("may look like a great pinball game, but the flipper controls and shot angles are rough around the edges [and] even the graphics aren't up to Tengen's earlier pinball efforts").

External links

• Dragon's Revenge at MobyGames
  MobyGames
  -Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...
  
  
• Segagaga Domain review
• Sega-16 review
• Crush series