Checkers in TAN TAN Tanuki
Released Year : 1985
Published by : PONYCA
Price : 4800 yen
Platform : MSX
Media : ROM
"Lets control Fumiya with the BGM 'tan tan tanuki no xxxx wa～'.
Touched by Fumiya, Tanuki starts to walk for assembling Checkers' members.
You need to assemble six members to clear a stage.
The action game with interesting aspect of pazzle.
Lets have girl friends over, play with Checkers.
(quoted from ad of that time)
Controls
Cursor
move Fumiya
Assemble Checkers' other six members(yellow).
Only Tanuki can assemble members, and Tanuki is the only force in this game.
Fumiya touches sleeping Tanuki, Tanuki starts to walk tracing music notes. You need to understand and utilize Tanuki's nature.
About "Checkers"
Checkers is a popular Japanese idol group in the 1980s. They have seven menbers including vocalist Fumiya.
"Checkers in TAN TAN Tanuki" is their first movie.
Tanuki means raccoon in Japanese.
The BGM during Tanuki's walk is Checkers' hit tune "Anoko-to Scandal"(="Scandal with that girl").
More about "Tan Tan Tanuki"
Probably you know this game's BGM as "Shall We Gather At The River".
But in Japan, this melody is well known as "Tan Tan Tanuki".
Tan Tan Tanuki is popular filk song in Japan.
But.....the lylics means.....
"Tan Tan Tanuki's ballock is ..........."
Astonishing difficulty !
TAN TAN Tanuki was published by PONYCA in 1985.
PONYCA is big publisher, succeed in different area including music, movie.
In MSX world, they were well known for publising ACTIVION's american softs, and games based on films like
"Champions" "Jackie Chen's Project A" "Back To The Future".
It looks coattail game, taking advantage of Checkers' popularity, but once you play this game, surely amazed by its difficulty.
Fumiya leaves music notes as footprints. He can't walk on the notes. So he can't walk back.
In addition, Fumiya dies touched by any other characters except Tanuki. Fumiya's activity is very very limited !!
Japanese package Title
Fumiya walks toward sleeping Tanuki. As touched by Fumiya, Tanuki awakes...
Tanuki starts retracing the note, Skelton erases notes.
and assembles a member of Checkers.
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