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However, around the time the console launched, Nintendo approached Hudson about developing Family BASIC — one of the 1 peripherals — which led Hudson to enter the Family Computer market; in 1984/7, Nuts & Milk and Lode Runner were released as the first third-party titles.
The game was first released on Japanese home computers such as the MSX, NEC PC-6001mkII, Sharp X1, Fujitsu FM-7, Hitachi S1 and later to the Family Computer in Japan.
Along with Lode Runner, it was the first third-party video game to be released on a Nintendo console.
Originally developed by Japanese software company Hudson Soft for several home computers in Japan, Nuts & Milk became one of the company's first Family Computer video games along with Lode Runner.
It was first released, only in the United Kingdom, in 1984 as Hot Pop and was later re-released by Melbourne House in the United Kingdom and Australia.
While the game retains stylistic similarities to other games published at the time, it is unique in being an arcade-styled game that was never released on an actual arcade system.
Though an exclusive soundtrack for either game was never released, the music from both versions can be found on the 1987 compilation album Hudson Game Music (catalog number 28XA-87) released in Japan by Alfa and GMO Records.
A version of Nuts & Milk resembling the Famicom release has since been ported to mobile phones as a download service beginning on September 1, 2003, in Japan by KG Telecom as part of their "GameMaster" compilation, which contains other Hudson Soft games from the 8-bit era.
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