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Ports for the Amstrad CPC and the ZX Spectrum were also planned and demo versions were produced, but development was later halted and they were not released.
A Japanese version was also planned, but in the end it was not released.
It was planned to be published in Winter 1994, but it was never released.
JuJu Densetsu (overseas version: Toki) is an arcade game released by TAD in 1989.
Outside Japan it was ported to the Amiga, the Atari ST, the Commodore 64 and others.
It was not much of a hit in Japan, but outside the country it was enormously popular and was ported to many home consoles.
The game book Mega Drive Daizen (2004, Ota Shuppan) rated it negatively: although attack power and jumping power can be strengthened by picking up power-ups, the time limit is so short that time runs out before the next enemy is met, and the stomping attack is awkward to use. It condemned the game, saying "the game keeps getting stuck and the pace is poor".
TAD was a company founded by Tadashi Yokoyama, who had spun out of Data East and became its president, together with members such as Haruki Kitahara, Takashi Nishizawa and Tsukasa Aoki, and the style of this game closely resembles the works of Data East.
It was planned to be published in Winter 1994, but it was never released.
In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by the magazine Family Computer Magazine,it scored 19.6 out of 30, as shown below.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu, the four reviewers gave 6, 5, 6, and 4, for a total of 21 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Mega Drive FAN its rating was as follows, 15.10 out of 30.
Ocean Software published versions for the Amiga, Atari ST, and Commodore 64, They advertised versions for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC and the Spectrum version was previewed in issue 90 of CRASH, but neither port materialized.
In Japan, Game Machine listed Toki on their March 15, 1990 issue as being the sixteenth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
Despite this, they still didn't see it as a great game at all, and stated that it "isn't a perfect game".
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