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Solomon's Key
[Tecmo, 1986][related: Michiharu Hasuya]
A 1987
nes
title in which a Taoist Monk
1
releases the horde of demons described in
lesser-key-of-solomon
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,
Solomon's Key
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
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
ringu
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
2
.
1 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 .
2 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.