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It took 5th place for Best Shooting Game and 20th place among the year's hit games in the 4th Gamest Grand Prix (1990) run by the magazine Gamest.
It took 5th place for Best Shooting Game and 20th place among the year's hit games in the 4th Gamest Grand Prix (1990) run in the magazine Gamest (Shinseisha).
In the Cross Review feature of the magazine Famitsu it scored a total of 28 out of 40. Gekkan PC Engine gave 85, 85, 70, 85, and 85, for an average of 82 out of 100, and Marukatsu PC Engine gave 7, 8, 8, and 7, for a total of 30 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by PC Engine FAN, it scored 19.44 out of 30, as shown below.
This score also placed it 368th among all PC Engine titles (485 titles in total, as of 1993).
1941: Counter Attack was first released in arcades by Capcom and Electrocoin in 1990, running on the CP System board.
In Japan, Game Machine listed 1941: Counter Attack in its March 15, 1990 issue as the third most popular arcade game of the month.
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