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T.S.S. published three games in fourteen months and this 1991 Hu-Card, code TS91001, was the last. What the game is, why every boss is a skeleton, who actually developed it, and why the katakana title returns hundreds of auction listings with one game among them.
Rondo of Blood (KMCD3005) never left Japan, so the Japanese disc is the only copy there is. Two different Super Famicom games share a Japanese title with the Famicom original, and only the product code tells them apart.
Rainbow Parasol Collection arrives 8 October with Rainbow Islands CS, Parasol Stars and Spica Adventure. Rainbow Islands CS is six home conversions, one of them a Genesis build cancelled in 1994; Parasol Stars never had an arcade version; and Spica began as a 2003 mobile phone app. Only the Mega Drive Rainbow Islands EXTRA carries a product code, and measured Suruga-ya hit counts are below.
Chou Aniki (1992) is Japan's definitive "baka-ge" — a deliberately absurd cult classic. Here's its story, and three more cult classics cut from the same cloth, with product codes to find real copies.
Five regional releases, one myth about censorship that keeps getting repeated — and the product codes for the versions that never left Japan.
Type a Western title. Get the Japanese name, the cartridge code printed on the spine, and links to the shops that have it.
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