What platforms is Rings of Power on?

Rings of Power was released on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

When did Rings of Power release?

Rings of Power was first released on December 31, 1991.

Rings of Power

Dec 31, 1991Role-playing (RPG)Sega Mega Drive/Genesis

Rings of Power — frequently asked questions

What platforms is Rings of Power on?: Rings of Power was released on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
When did Rings of Power release?: Rings of Power was first released on December 31, 1991.

About Rings of Power

Band together six powerful magicians and search out the fabled Rings of Power to free your world. Interact and trade with inhabitants of thirty cities. Over 100 animated spells to choose from! Rings of Power is quite different from traditional console RPGs gameplay-wise, and is more similar to Western-style games such as Ultima series. You can freely wander through the huge isometric world, and are not obliged to follow any storyline except the main quest for the eleven rings. You can talk to NPCs about many topics, choose whom to fight, bribe people, etc. There is a day/night cycle which affects the behavior of characters. Unlike most RPGs, there are no weapons and armor in this game. The turn-based combat is entirely dependent on magic spells. On your journey you will encounter characters from several guilds, each proficient in his own type of magic, and make them join your party.

Summary via IGDB.

Game details

Developer: Naughty Dog
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Game modes: Single player
Themes: Fantasy, Open world

Details via IGDB.

Reception

IGDB rating

70/100

from 5 ratings

Every version compared

Prices, contemporary reception and the studio credited for each release

Platform	Year	Loose	Complete	Sealed	Period reviews	Fake risk
Sega Genesis	1992	$27	$98	—	4 reviews	Low

Also released on: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. We haven’t priced or authenticated that version yet.

Collector value & authenticity

Sega Genesis · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-10-29

Loose

$27

Complete

$98

Sealed

—

Other releases and variants

Release	Loose	Complete	Sealed
European (PAL) release	$13	$40	$101

How often it sells

Loose: about once a month
Complete: about once a month
Sealed: about once a year

Sales frequency from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, as of 2026-10-29.

Price over time

Loose
Complete

A loose copy sold for about $5.99 in Apr 2009, $30 five years ago, and $27 as of Oct 2026.

Show as table

Month	Loose	Complete
Jan 2010	$14.83	—
Jan 2011	$4.99	—
Jan 2012	$10.47	—
Jan 2013	$8.99	—
Jan 2014	$13.00	$50
Jan 2015	$14.01	$29
Jan 2016	$14.49	$21
Jan 2017	$22	$99
Jan 2018	$19.53	$46
Jan 2019	$19.99	$40
Jan 2020	$26	$49
Jan 2021	$22	$41
Jan 2022	$30	$96
Jan 2023	$37	$52
Jan 2024	$30	$93
Jan 2025	$31	$82
Jan 2026	$25	$114
Oct 2026	$27	$98

Monthly price estimates from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, sampled quarterly, through Oct 2026.

Release record

Territory	Date	Barcode
North America	January 1992	014633070248
Europe / PAL	February 1992	—

Source: Product numbers: MAME's Mega Drive software list and the No-Intro serial records in the libretro database, published where both agree on the same cartridge dump, or from the libretro records alone where MAME lists no number for that dump. Board and ROM numbers: MAME's software list

Region: NA+EU
Released: 1992
Authenticity: Low

Modern re-releases, such as Sega Ages, the Genesis Mini and Nintendo Switch Online, are not tracked hereLow counterfeit risk

Sega Genesis prices, all games & how to spot a fake

A big, ambitious role-playing game from Naughty Dog that magazines found slow and empty, and which now costs above the middle of the US carts.

Rings of Power is a role-playing game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Electronic Arts. You play Buc, an apprentice sorcerer who builds a party of adventurers and collects eleven rings to defeat the evil god Void. It came out in North America in January 1992 and in Europe in February 1992. It was Naughty Dog's first console game.

Mean Machines was harsh on it: one reviewer wrote that it looks fine on the surface but offers nothing to engage the mind, and another found the combat unforgiving, the movement unresponsive and the whole thing slow and frustrating.

How it was made

Naughty Dog pitched the game under the working title Buccaneer after its earlier game Keef the Thief. It was first meant for MS-DOS and the Amiga, until its founders came across EA's reverse-engineered Genesis development kit. It was the second EA game to begin development for the Genesis.

What the press said at the time

Mean Machines Sega Issue 3	December 1992	41%
GamePro		21/25
Video Games & Computer Entertainment		6/10
MegaTech		49%

“Sad, jerky scrolling, a hopeless combat system, unfunny jokes, tortuously slow gameplay, feeble graphics and ear-rendingly awful sound ruin the great ideas behind the game and make it a real mess to play.”
— Mean Machines, March 1992

“have tried to inject new life into the RPG formula, but have sadly ended up with a vacuous zombie of a game. It looks alright on the surface, but get deeper and there's nothing there to provide intellectual stimulation.”
— Mean Machines Sega, December 1992

Undated scores are from the review table in the game's Wikipedia article, limited to reviews of the Genesis version.

Before you buy

Among US carts it sits well above the middle, and the risk of a fake is low. The European cart usually costs much less than the US one, both loose and complete. A complete US copy means the case, cartridge and manual.