Toy Shop Boys

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Toy Shop Boys
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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

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

Contents

Gameplay

Gameplay screenshot PCE Toy Shop Boys.png
Gameplay screenshot

Toy Shop Boys is a vertical-scrolling shooter game.

Development and release

Toy Shop Boys was published by Victor Musical Industries.

Reception

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

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

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