is an action role-playing video game developed by

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and originally released for the Japanese

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home computer system in

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. Sega licensed the franchise in 1988 and released the game for the

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(the Mark III in Japan), featuring enhanced graphics and entirely different overworld and dungeon layouts. This version was released worldwide under the name ''Golvellius: Valley of Doom''. Later that year (1988), Compile released yet another remake for the

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system, titled . This game featured mostly the same graphics as the ones in the Sega Master System version, but the overworld and dungeon layouts are entirely different. In 2009 it was announced by

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/D4 Entreprise that ''Golvellius'' was to be re-released for the

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platform. It is a port of the Master System version. The scenario is the same in all the three different versions of ''Golvellius''. The ending promised a sequel, which was never developed/released. However, there is a spin-off game titled ''Super Cooks'' that came included in the 1989 release of the ''Disc Station Special Shoka Gou''.

Reception

Computer and Video Games ''Computer and Video Games'' (also known as ''CVG'', ''Computer & Video Games'', ''C&VG'', ''Computer + Video Games'', or ''C+VG'') was a UK-based video game magazine, published in its original form between 1981 and 2004. Its offshoot website ...

'' rated the Sega Master System version 87% in 1989. ''

Console XS Paragon Publishing Ltd (or Paragon for short) was a magazine publisher in the UK, which published computer games and other entertainment titles from 1991 to 2003. Brief history Paragon Publishing Ltd was formed in a small office in Trowbridge, ...

'' rated it 82% in 1992.

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* 1987 video games Action role-playing video games Compile (company) games MSX games MSX2 games Master System games IOS games Video games developed in Japan {{action-videogame-stub