Posted by Paleface on October 22, 2018 at 03:34:42 EST in reply to New high score (and apparently YouTube world record--my recording inside ; ) of 3280 -- I figured out I'd been swinging at the boars way too early. Also, hunted around for more on Yosaku: dug up what may be a video of the original, and also details on its apparent Toaplan origins. from Paleface.
I got my timeline a little twisted. The Cassette Vision version came out in '81; if the original arcade Yosaku came out two years prior, as that commenter says, that puts it in '79. Haven't been able to find a start date for Orca Corporation, or any other credits to them that early. But if this is all legit, the original game was made by Orca, several of whose members would later go on to form Toaplan, who did some work for SNK.
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