Solomon's Key

Solomon's Key (ソロモンの鍵, Soromon no Kagi) is a puzzle game developed by Tecmo in 1986 for an arcade release on custom hardware based on the Z80 chipset. It was ported to multiple systems including the Nintendo Entertainment System and Commodore 64. The PC Engine version was known as Zipang and the Game Boy version as Solomon's Club. A prequel, Solomon's Key 2, was released in 1992 for the NES. The game was also ported to Virtual Console for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U in 2006 and later to Nintendo Switch Online in 2018.

Solomon's Key
NES cover art
Developer(s)Tecmo
Probe Software (computers)
Publisher(s)Tecmo
U.S. Gold (computers)
Designer(s)Michitaka Tsuruta
Platform(s)Arcade, NES, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, IBM PC, Master System, PC Engine, Famicom Disk System, Game Boy
Release
1986
  • Arcade
    1986
    NES/Famicom
    • JP: July 30, 1986
    • NA: July 22, 1987
    • EU: March 30, 1990
    C64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST
    IBM PC
    Master System
    • JP: April 17, 1988
    PC Engine
    • JP: December 14, 1990
    Famicom Disk System
    • JP: January 25, 1991
    Game Boy
    • JP: April 5, 1991
    • NA: April 1991
    • EU: 1991
    Virtual Console
    Wii (NES)
    • NA: November 19, 2006
    • JP: December 2, 2006
    • EU: December 15, 2006
    • AU: December 15, 2006
    Wii (Arcade)
    • JP: August 18, 2009
    • EU: September 11, 2009
    • NA: November 30, 2009
    Nintendo 3DS (NES)
    • JP: December 5, 2012
    • EU: August 22, 2013
    • NA: September 19, 2013
    Wii U (NES)
    • JP: May 1, 2013
    • WW: May 9, 2013
    Nintendo Switch Online (NES)
    • WW: October 10, 2018
    Arcade Archives
    PS4 (Arcade)
    • JP: September 4, 2014
    • NA: September 15, 2015
    Nintendo Switch (Arcade)
    • WW: June 6, 2019
Genre(s)Puzzle
Mode(s)Single-player
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