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-<p>
-<strong>
-<em>
-Solomon's Key
-</em>
-[Tecmo, 1986][related: Michiharu Hasuya]
-</strong>
-<br/>
-A 1987
-[[nes]]
-title in which a Taoist Monk
-<sup>
-</sup>
-releases the horde of demons described in
-<em>
-[[lesser-key-of-solomon]]
-</em>
-after
-accidentally finding the key to the Constellation Sign. Based on a succession
-of 50 stages of exponentially increasing difficulty oriented around the signs
-of the Zodiac,
-<em>
-Solomon's Key
-</em>
-is commonly known as the most difficult
-title to ever be released on the system, with no reported successful
-completions. It is widely speculated that either stage 48 or 49 (known colloquially as the
-<!-- links to video embed *video* *ready* -->
-[[error]]
-) represents the
-vanishing point of forward progress, though various Wiccan "mystic-hacks" have
-been reported successful in allowing progress to the game's mysterious final
-stage, including the drawing of pentagrams using an E-Pen and the chanting of
-"Bael" through a techno-hack vocoder. The 1998 Japanese horror film
-<em>
-[[ringu]]
-</em>
-was reportedly based in part on
-urban legends surrounding various unexplained and unsubstantiated spectral and
-metaphysical phenomena associated with Level 50. Music by Michiharu
-Hasuya
-<sup>
-</sup>
-.
-</p>
-<div class="footnote">
-<p>
-<sup>
-</sup>
-Leading to accusations of Judeo-Christian centrism and the
-malicious orientalism of Eastern worldviews seen by many to have taken root in World War II and the subsequent
-[[error]]
-.
-</p>
-<p>
-<sup>
-</sup>
-Including an experimental soundtrack to one of the games "
-[[error]]
-" representing the video game
-industry's first instance of poly-tonal, aleatorically generated scoring. The
-theme was reportedly originally scored for string quartet and then
-transcribed by hand for 8-bit realization and includes a rudimentary algorithmic
-component allowing it to continually morph for an indeterminate and
-reportedly infinite length of time. Later leaked on
-[[internet]]
-as a deep web
-live stream, the theme lead to
-numerous reports of
-[[apeirophobia]]
-attacks.
-</p>
-</div>
-]]>

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