King’s Field is a dungeon crawler created by From Software and released in 1994 for Playstation. It was never published in the West. In the gallery at the end of the page we can see a pre-release build of the game. It’s hard to tell, due to the low quality of the screens, if there are any significant differences from the final version.

The screenshot above, instead, is probably from a target render or a very early version of the game. Unfortunately we don’t have any info about it.
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4 Responses to King’s Field (Japan Version) [Beta - PSX]
Alex Kraus
March 14th, 2012 at 11:47 am
Both King’s Field and King’s Field II were released in the USA. Am I missing something here?
monokoma
March 14th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
USA King’s Field 1 & 2 are translations of King’s Field 2 & 3 :D
Wally
April 9th, 2012 at 10:05 am
Yeah, the Japanese KF1 never made it to English (except through fan translation). Those enemies are from the true KF 1 (Japan), but those menus and scenes weren’t in the final game. Must be an early test of some sort. Where did these pictures come from?
yota
April 9th, 2012 at 11:57 am
the big screenshot, which i think is a target render, is from a issue of console mania, a defunct italian magazine.
The pics in the gallery are instead from a 1994 issue of gamefan.