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Partway through, staff including Hironobu Sakaguchi, who had finished work on Final Fantasy, joined the development, and in the end about 10 members from Square visited Kyoto, where Nintendo is based, and shut themselves away for about 2 weeks to finish the game.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the four reviewers gave 6, 8, 8, and 7, for a total of 29 out of 40.
In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by the magazine Family Computer Magazine,it scored 17.40 out of 25, as shown below.
Sakamoto, then in his fifth year at Nintendo, was excited at the prospect of making an adventure game, but came up with an idea of using a real life celebrity instead of creating a new character, to make the game feel like an "event" or a "kind of festival".
The Disk Fax service was used for a contest from December 19, 1987, to February 29, 1988, in which 8000 winners received an autographed phonecard (for those who finished the game with the "normal" ending) and 8000 received a special VHS tape (for those who finished with the "best" ending).
The game was released on December 1, 1987, and is one of the first dating sim video games.
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