Toy Shop Boys[a] is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up video game released in 1990 for the NEC PC Engine by Victor.[1]

Toy Shop Boys
Developer(s)Mutech
Publisher(s)Victor Musical Industries
Director(s)Yoshinao Shimada
Producer(s)Harunobu Komori
Designer(s)Yoshinao Shimada
Programmer(s)Ken Hasegawa
Takashi Oka
Artist(s)Kazuya Matsuzawa
Kumiko Watanabe
Yasuhiro Kanō
Yojiro Hirashita
Writer(s)Hiroyuki Sakai
Platform(s)PC Engine
Release
  • JP: December 14, 1990
Genre(s)Vertically scrolling shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

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Gameplay screenshot

Toy Shop Boys is a vertical-scrolling shooter game.

Development and release

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Toy Shop Boys was published by Victor Musical Industries.

Reception

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Toy Shop Boys received average reviews.[2][3][4][5][6] The Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine ranked the game fifteenth in popularity in its April 1991 issue.[11]

Notes

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  1. ^ Japanese: トイショップ ボーイズ, Hepburn: Toi Shoppu Bōizu

References

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  1. ^ Matsuyama, Benī (January 1991). "Super Soft Hot Information: PC Engine 新作ソフト Data Base". Micom BASIC Magazine [ja]. No. 103. The Dempa Shimbunsha Corporation [ja]. pp. 246–247.
  2. ^ a b "Bytesize: PC Engine". Computer and Video Games. No. 112. EMAP. March 1991. p. 77.
  3. ^ a b "新作ゲームクロスレビュー PART 2: トイショップボーイズ". Famitsu (in Japanese). No. 117. ASCII Corporation. December 21, 1990. p. 37.
  4. ^ a b Querleux, Philippe (February 1991). "Tests CoregrafX: Toy Shop Boys". Génération 4 [fr] (in French). No. 30. Pressimage. p. 78.
  5. ^ a b Demoly, Jean-Marc (February 1991). "Consoles News: Toy Shop Boys". Joystick (in French). No. 13. Sipress. p. 114.
  6. ^ a b "新作ソフトお毒味チャート: トイショップボーイズ". Marukatsu PC Engine [ja] (in Japanese). Vol. 3, no. 2. Kadokawa Shoten. February 1991. p. 126.
  7. ^ Scamps, Olivier (February 1991). "Tests de Jeux: Toy Shop Boys". Player One [fr] (in French). No. 6. Média Système Édition [fr]. p. 48.
  8. ^ Huyghues-Lacour, Alain (March 1991). "Rolling Softs: Exhaustilt!". Tilt (in French). No. 88. Editions Mondiales S.A. [fr]. p. 80—81.
  9. ^ Utsumiya, Ho (February 1991). "Tops & Softs Consoles: Toy Shop Boys". Micro News [fr] (in French). No. 44. Publications Georges Ventillard [fr]. p. 76.
  10. ^ Kneffel, Dieter (June 1991). "Konsolen-Spiele: Toy Shop Boys". Play Time [de] (in German). No. 2. Computec. pp. 120–121.
  11. ^ Matsuyama, Benī (April 1991). "Super Soft Hot Information: PC Engine 今月の人気ソフト・ランキング". Micom BASIC Magazine [ja]. No. 106. The Dempa Shimbunsha Corporation [ja]. pp. 259–261.
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