Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara

Manufacturer: Capcom
Year: 1996
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Fighter
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Capcom CPS II - JAMMA
Number of Simultaneous Players: 4
Maximum number of Players: 4
Gameplay: Joint
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 4 [Attack|Jump|Select Option|Fire Option]

Sound: Capcom Q-Sound - Amplified Stereo

Click here to contribute another image.

Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara Description

A beat-em-up role-playing game that allows up to four players to choose one of the following characters: an elf-mage/warrior, human-fighter, dwarf-fighter, human-cleric, human thief or a human mage. Throughout the game, players must fight and solve puzzles. The group may choose to take different routes during the quest.

Know anything more about this game?
Click here to contribute a description or other text information.
Thanks!

Conversion

Although this game is a direct swap for other CPSII games such as Dungeons & Dragons: Tower Of Doom, the locations of the "Select Option" and "Fire Option" buttons are reversed when compared to the original game.

Game Introduction

This game adds two characters not found in the original game: a Female Thief and a male Mage. This version also allows up to two players to select the same character but with different costumes/graphics, thus allowing for a total of twelve "different" characters to choose from. Additionally, this game also has several new features such as character specialty attacks and immunity from "friendly fire."

Game Play

The players are adventurers: a human fighter, a human Cleric, a female Elf warrior-mage, a Dwarven warrior, a female human Thief and a human Magic User. They travel from place to place performing heroic deeds and making the world safe from the forces of darkness, all the while fighting monsters, gathering treasure and advancing in power.

CAPS/VAPS Arcade Census

There are 6,492 members of the Classic Arcade Preservation Society / Video Arcade Preservation Society, 3,731 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 61,187 machines (3,630 unique titles).

Common - There are 45 known instances of this machine owned by Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara collectors. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines, it is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 42 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

This game ranks a 28 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Wanted - There are 5 VAPS members currently looking for Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara. There are 5 VAPS members looking for Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara board sets.

This game ranks a 26 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

For Sale - There is one VAPS member with a Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara machine for sale. There are 1 VAPS members with extra Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara circuit boards for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them even though arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses, while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up.
Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector.
In particular, since VAPS started out focusing on videogames, statistics for other types of machines should not (yet) be an indication of scarcity.
For a clue to value, look at absolute numbers of owners and potential owners above, compare a ratio of how many people want this game vs. how many people have this game (11%) and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Technical

The third and fourth player controls are mapped to the option connector on the CPS2 board. The fourth button for players one and two are mapped to the JAMMA connector on pins 25 and c, respectively.

Trivia

The gameplay and graphics are like an updated version of Capcom's Final Fight. The little sword-swinging flourish the fighter does after defeating a major enemy is taken directly from Capcom's previous side-scrolling sword fighting game, Knights Of The Round.

Fixes

This game suffers from the usual Capcom battery death problem. The only fix for most of these games is to return the board to Capcom for repair.

Legacy

Dungeons & Dragons: Tower Of Doom
Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara

eBay Listings

Click to search eBay for Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara Videogame machines and related items.

Click to search eBay for machines and parts made by Capcom.

Check out the IAM/KLOV report of the hottest coin-op machines on eBay, powered by Ace.com.

Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara - Cabinet Image

Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara - Title screen image

Photo contributed by: asterix

Click here to contribute another image.

Return to the index | Return to the Main Page

If you wish to use material from our web sites, please take a look at our Acceptable Use, Copyright, and Trademark Page. Except as described on that page, any use of the information found here may not be copied or reprinted on any medium, either physical or electronic, without the express written permission of The International Arcade Museum.