Tower&Shaft [Aleck64]

Platform: Nintendo 64
Developer: Aruze
Publisher: Aruze
Release Date (NTSC-JPN): 2003
(Aleck64 Arcade Platform)
Language Patch Available:
🇺🇸 English
Genre: Puzzle
Players: 1
Force Feedback: No

🕹️ Game Description

Tower & Shaft delivers two modes of vertical puzzle gameplay: Shaft challenges you to fall through platforms and stay ahead of a descending screen — miss and you lose a life. Tower flips the action, requiring timed jumps with a fluctuating power meter to reach higher floors. Lose momentum and fall off-screen? Life lost. You get two lives per credit, with respawns starting ten floors below death point. Though menus and story are in Japanese, the core gameplay is intuitive. A rare Aleck64 arcade title, preserved via emulation for collectors and enthusiasts.

Translations Available

🇺🇸 English Translation

Tower & Shaft has been fan-translated into English by Zoinkity. The patch uses the .xdelta format and was released on February 4, 2019.
This series of patches localizes the Aleck64 title “Tower & Shaft” to North American English and optionally modifies it to run on Nintendo 64 hardware. A revised cartridge conversion method is used, consistent with later conversion releases. This should act as a replacement for the original N64 conversion release.
Patch details available at ROMHacking.net.

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