Dragon’s Fury is a pinball video game developed by Compile and published by Tengen for the Sega Genesis.  Released in 1992 the game is a modify version of the 1990 TurboGrafx-16 pinball game, Devil’s Crush.

The pinball table featured in Devil’s Crush was designed with an occult theme featuring skulls, skeletons, and demons.   The dark hell-oriented theme featured many creatures and objects related to hell, or the Devil.  The top section of the table contained a pentagram surrounded by roman numerals.   If all roman numerals are activated by hitting them with a ball, then robed fiends resembling Druids start circling around the pentagram.

Due to the religious nature of some of the items found in the game and the overall “hell” theme caused some controversy resulting in the North American release of Devil’s Crush to be censored by changing all hexagrams to generic stars and coffins with crucifixes to vases.   With this in mind Tengen decided to rename the port that was being created for the Genesis to “Dragon’s Fury” to give the game a more medieval feel theme opposed to a hell themed.

The port to the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive console was handled by developer Technosoft.  The North American release of the Sega Genesis port and the European release of the Mega Drive was retitled to “Dragon’s Fury”; however, the Japanese release of the Mega Drive port retained the Devil’s Crash name with a slight revision to “Devil Crash MD”.

The game’s pinball table is divided into three sections as the free scrolling table transitions between three screens. Each of the three sections divide across three screen breaks and have their own flippers. The premise of the game is just like any other pinball game where balls are released into the table with the goal to gain as many points as possible before losing all of the balls. The uniqueness of the game centers around its theme, the objects placed throughout the pinball table and the mechanics of the table.