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Tower of Babel is a 1986 puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Namco for the Family Computer. It was released in Japan on July 18, 1986. The game's goal is to solve the puzzle of each of the 64 levels of the ancient Tower of Babel and reach the top of the tower. The player controls the protagonist, Indy Borgnine, who must avoid enemies while rearranging L-shaped blocks in order to reach each level's exit. Development was done by Namco, and the project was planned by Hiroshima Nagashima, who had worked on the company's arcade game Sky Kid (1985), the music was by Norio Nakagata, and the character design was by Hiroshi Fuji. A port to arcades for the Nintendo VS. System, VS.