The Death Trap
| The Death Trap | |
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| Developer(s) | Square |
| Publisher(s) | Square |
| Designer(s) | Hironobu Sakaguchi |
| Platform(s) | NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, Fujitsu FM-7 |
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Interactive fiction Visual novel Adventure game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Will: The Death Trap II | |
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| Developer(s) | Square |
| Publisher(s) | Square |
| Designer(s) | Hironobu Sakaguchi |
| Platform(s) | NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, Fujitsu FM-7, Sharp X1 |
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| Genre(s) | Interactive fiction Adventure game Visual novel |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Alpha | |
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| Developer(s) | Square |
| Publisher(s) | Square |
| Writer(s) | Hiromichi Tanaka |
| Composer(s) | Nobuo Uematsu |
| Platform(s) | NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, Fujitsu FM-7, Sharp X1 |
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| Genre(s) | Interactive fiction Adventure game Visual novel |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
The Death Trap (ザ・デストラップ?) is a text adventure video game developed and published by Square for the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, and Fujitsu FM-7 in 1984. The game and its supporting computer platforms were only released in Japan.
The Death Trap is the first game developed by Square, created before they were even an independent company. At the time, Square was a software branch of Den-Yu-Sha, a Japanese power line manufacturing firm; it was not until 1986 that Square Co., Ltd. was independently established. Square followed up with a sequel to The Death Trap in 1985 called Will: The Death Trap II. Square's third and final text adventure game was called Alpha, released in 1986, and tells a science fiction story in the same style as The Death Trap. The company's next game, Suishō no Dragon, was an early point-and-click adventure game and their subsequent games were in a variety of other genres before settling on the role-playing video game with Final Fantasy. Project EGG, a licensed emulator for home computer games, included The Death Trap, Will, and Alpha together in its limited edition "Classic PC-Game Collection" on September 8, 2013, alongside Cruise Chaser Blassty and Genesis—other Square games released between 1984 and 1987.
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