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It was the 1st title since Namco entered the PC Engine market.
In the 1st Gamest Grand Prize, held in the game magazine Gamest, it took 8th place overall, and besides that took 4th place for the Best Ending Award, 8th for the Best Graphics Award, 5th for Best Income among table games, and in the Best Character Award this game's protagonist Tarosuke took 2nd place.
In the "Cross Review" of the game magazine Famitsu it received 5, 7, 7 and 7, for a total of 26 out of 40, and its rating in the Game Report Card reader poll run by the game magazine PC Engine FAN was 21.04 out of 30, as shown below.
This score also placed it 256th among all PC Engine titles (485 titles in total, as of 1993).
In the "Cross Review" of the game magazine Famitsu it received 7, 8, 8 and 7, for a total of 30 out of 40, earning a place in the Silver Hall of Fame, and its rating in the Game Report Card reader poll run by the game magazine Family Computer Magazine was 21.41 out of 30, as shown below.
It was followed by a Japan-only spin-off in 1990 named Kyūkai Dōchūki, which is a "yakyū" (baseball) video game that plays similar to the entirety of Namco's own World Stadium series.
Tarosuke also appears as a playable character in the Japan-only role-playing PlayStation 2 game Namco X Capcom, where he is teamed up with Taira no Kagekiyo from Genpei Tōma Den.
The game system was later changed and it was released on other platforms as well, including the PC Engine and the Family Computer (see #Ports).
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