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Namennayo (Cat's, 1982) - undumped and unknown outside Japan?
03/12/16 12:11 AM
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I may be missing something here, but while searching around recently, I realized that this undumped game (which has been known about for quite a while now in Japan) seems to be MIA on any of the western undumped/unmamed lists, so I thought I'd post about it here.
It's supposedly based on Radical Radial, but if so it was very heavily altered. The company name ("Cat's") seems more like a joke, so who knows who really made it. If you're unfamiliar with the whole "namennayo" thing, it was basically the early '80s Japanese version of "lolcats" (stupid pictures of cats dressed up as juvenile delinquent bikers, etc.) and was a big marketing fad for a while there. Bandai even released a handheld game based on it around the same time.
Anyway, as you'll see below, the game has been circulating in the Japanese arcade collector scene for a few years, and has shown up at a couple of arcade shows. I've seen the board listed on Yahoo Japan auctions a couple of times as well, for silly money. Here's a video from one of those shows, with a basically complete playthrough, as well as part of an online "strategy guide" for it with a picture of the game's instruction sheet:
http://nicoviewer.net/sm16782405
http://fnacco.blog45.fc2.com/blog-entry-909.html
Again, sorry if this is all old news here, but I strangely couldn't find anything about it in English...
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