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In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by the magazine Family Computer Magazine,it scored 17.77 out of 30, as listed separately.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu, the game scored a total of 25.
In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by the magazine Family Computer Magazine,it scored 17.92 out of 30, as listed separately.
Pax Softnica, which had originally taken on the development of microcomputer titles, had no experience of developing Famicom software, so the company's founder, Tomoshige Hashimoto, went to Home Data to acquire the know-how.
At first it was positioned as a simple remake of Penguin-kun Wars, and was test-played under the same rule as Penguin-kun Wars, "whoever sends 10 balls over to the opponent wins", but voices among the staff pointed out that it felt lacking.
A port developed by ASCII the Game Boy, Penguin-Kun Wars Vs., was the only version to be released outside Japan; it was released in North America as Penguin Wars by Nexoft and in Europe as King of the Zoo by Nintendo.
In Japan, Game Machine listed Penguin Wars on their August 1, 1985 issue as being the fourteenth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
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