Lost In Translation/Growl
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| Manufacturer | Taito Corporation Japan |
| Released | 1990 |
| Control Method |
8-way Joystick 3 Button(s) |
| Main CPU | 68000 (@ 12.000 MHz) Z80 (@ 4.000 MHz) |
| Sound CPU | Stereo YM2610 (@ 8.000 MHz) |
| Video Details |
Raster (Horizontal) 320 x 224 pixels 60.00 Hz 4,096 Palette colours |
| Screens | 1 |
| ROM Info | 10 ROMs 5,832,704 bytes (5.56 MiB) |
| MAME ID | growl · growlu · runark |
About The Game
Growl is an arcade video game.
A huge mêlée battle featuring 4 forest rangers out to save the animals from the sinister poachers. Lots of enemies onscreen make for a hectic fight!
Trivia
Even if titlescreen says 1990, Growl was released in February 1991 in US.
This game is known in Japan as "Runark".
This game was dedicated to the late Mr. Katsujiro Fujimoto.
The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to 'KOU'.
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Runark, Gun Frontier - PCCB-00060) on 21/04/1991.
Zuntata Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Zuntata History L'ab-normal 1st - ZTTL-0038) on 01/04/1999.
Staff
- Promotion Object
- Hiromitsu Mihara
- Music & Sound Effects (Zuntata)
- Yasuhisa Watanabe (Yack.)
- Character Designers
- Yasuhiko Kikuchi
- Kohzoh Igarashi (Aya Inochi Igarashi)
- Fujiwaran X
- Senba Takatsuna
- Hisakazu Kato
- Hardware
- Eikichi Takahashi
- Bruiser Kushiro
- Trifling Work
- Insector Fjw
- Software
- 3D Master Sugawara
- Muscle Sato
- Masaki Yagi (Yamabanga Yagi Ymot)
- On a Ninja Daisuke Yasukouchi
- Chinpuson Mr2 Tanaka
- Yuichi Kohyama (as God Mountain Y. Kohyama)
- Software Support
- Hideki Hashimoto
- Takashi Kitabayashi
- Base Game Plan
- Exit Yab
- Game Direction
- Hide Chan
- Project Management
- Hidehiro Fujiwara
Cabinet and Artwork
Growl flyer.
(Artwork is not based on Indiana Jones at all, oh no!
Back of the Growl flyer.
Alternate Growl flyer.
Runark flyer.
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Ports
- Consoles
- Sega Mega Drive (1991)
- Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, "Taito Memories Vol. 1"
- Microsoft XBOX (2006, "Taito Legends 2")
- Sony PlayStation 2 (2006, "Taito Legends 2")
- Computers
- PC [CD-ROM] (2006, "Taito Legends 2")
Soundtrack Releases
| Album Name | Catalogue No. | Released | Publisher | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runark / Gun Frontier | PCCB-00060[1] | 1991-04-21 | Scitron | CD version. |
| Shindaichi -G.S.M. Taito 6- | PCCB-00064[2] | 1991-06-21 | Pony Canyon/Scitron | CD version. |
| ZUNTATA HISTORY L'ab-normal 1st | ZTTL-0038[3] | 1999-04-01 | Zuntata Records | CD version. |
| Taito 1500 Collector's Box | PCCB-00130[4] | 1993-09-17 | Pony Canyon/Scitron | 5 CD version. |
References
- ↑ Runark / Gun Frontier (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Shindaichi -G.S.M. Taito 6- (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ ZUNTATA HISTORY L'ab-normal 1st (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Taito 1500 Collector's Box (CD) at the VGMdb
