Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer
Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer — frequently asked questions
- Is Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer on Steam?
- No. Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
- What platforms is Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer on?
- Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer is available on Atari Jaguar.
- When did Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer release?
- Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer was first released on December 1, 1996.
About Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer
The sequel to Towers: Lord Bantiff's Deceit, this game picks up roughly 6 months where the first game left off and follows the same first-person dungeon crawling formula. Become one of four different characters as you are immersed within the strange happenings in the mystical land of Lamini. You must uncover the secrets as you explore Daggan's tower. Many before you have tried, but none have returned. First person perspective, full screen smooth scrolling, talk to others, refer to maps, collect 100's of items, encounter 100's of creatures, experience challenges in combat and spell casting. Hours and hours of entertainment with appropriate save features.
Summary via IGDB.
Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer on Wikipedia
Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer is a first-person role-playing video game originally developed and published by JV Enterprises for the Atari Falcon in 1995. It is the sequel to Towers: Lord Baniff's Deceit, which was first released as a shareware title on the Atari ST in 1993 and later ported to MS-DOS and Game Boy Color.
Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).
Game details
- Platforms
- Atari Jaguar
- Developer
- JV Games
- Publisher
- JV Games
- Game modes
- Single player
- Themes
- Action
Details via IGDB.
Collector value & authenticity
Atari Jaguar · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-07-24
- Region
- NA+EU
- Released
- 1996
- Authenticity
- Low
The Jaguar's only true RPG — and a "rare" game you may be able to buy new at retail.
A Dungeon Master-lineage first-person crawler that began on the Atari Falcon: four characters, NPC conversation, 100+ items, magic, combat, and — genuinely notable for the platform — a save function. Telegames published it in December 1996, months after Atari Corporation had merged into JT Storage, making it one of the last licensed Jaguar releases. Slow, obtuse, expects you to map things yourself; that's the genre, not a defect.
The commercial wrinkle: Telegames distributed remaining manufactured inventory through Songbird Productions, which has listed it as new, in-stock product. Not a reprint — genuine remaining stock.
How it was made
JV Enterprises developed the Atari Jaguar version. Credited: designed by Jag Jaeger; programmed by Vince Valenti; music by Eric L. Richardson.
What the press said at the time
| AllGame | (Jaguar) 3/5 | |
| Jaguar Explorer Online | #1, March 27, 1997 | (Jaguar) 4/5 |
| Atari World | #3, July 1995 | (Falcon) 7/10 |
| GamePro | #113, December 1998 | (Jaguar) 12.5 / 20 |
| ST-Computer | #124, March 1997 | (Jaguar) 80% |
| ST Format | #70, May 1995 | (Falcon) 93% |
| Video Games | #93, August 1999 | (Jaguar) 3/5 |
Cartridge & preservation record
Cartridge ROM capacity 16 megabit (2 MB), measured from the preserved cartridge image.
Catalogue part number JA256
Cartridge data from the No-Intro preservation database (metadata only — names, sizes and checksums, no game data).
Worth knowing
- Built for a computer, but designed for the Jaguar in case. JV Enterprises was a partnership founded in Paradise, Nevada by Vince Valenti and Jag Jaeger, doing shareware for Atari machines and PCs. They built Towers II for the Atari Falcon over nine months — but designed it around the Jaguar's technical specifications from the start, in case they ever decided to port it. When they did, after the 1995 Falcon release, the conversion took six months and, in their own account, gave them minimal trouble.
- Smaller cartridge, bigger game, twelve frames a second. The Jaguar hardware let them add full-screen graphics and more textures on the tower interiors while shrinking the game from the Falcon's four megabytes onto a two-megabyte cartridge. It runs at roughly twelve frames per second and supports the ProController. Like everything Telegames published after the Jaguar's 1996 discontinuation, it sold only by direct order or through retailers such as Electronics Boutique — which is precisely why it is expensive now.
Before you buy
Check Songbird's current catalog before paying secondary-market prices — a buyer who discovers new-at-retail availability after paying a rarity premium is a dispute waiting to happen, and if you're the seller, disclose it. The same availability is why counterfeit risk here is essentially zero: nobody fakes a game you can still buy new.
Authenticity & condition — Atari Jaguar
Specific to the format this title shipped in
Buying a Jaguar cartridge
Cartridges are the durable half of this library — the risk is provenance, not decay. The platform has an active post-commercial scene, so the question is usually which era a cartridge is from rather than whether it still works.
- Ask for a photo of the label edge and the cartridge back. Reproductions are usually printed on adhesive photo stock and sit proud of the label recess.
- Donor shells are the common trick: sanding marks on the back, or adhesive ghosting where an older label was lifted, are the strongest signals.
- Cartridges are region-free on this platform, so a cheaper PAL copy plays on a North American console — a price difference is not evidence of a fake.
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