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Originally only released in Japan in April 1990, it was ported to various home consoles and personal computers, which were released internationally.
Rod Land was ported to many other systems, the first being the Amstrad CPC version in 1990 and the last being the Nintendo Game Boy version in 1993 (this excludes modernized remakes such as the version for Symbian mobiles in 2006).
The NES version was only released in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Japan.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the game scored a total of 21 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine,it scored 14.8 out of 30, as shown below.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the four reviewers gave 7, 4, 6, and 5, for a total of 22 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine,it scored 18.9 out of 30, as shown below.
After the front side is cleared, the method for switching to the back side is displayed, and after the back side is cleared, the staff roll is displayed.
Jaleco supplied Random Access with the background graphics for Rod Land stored as 16x16 pixel squares, although "jumbled up and in the wrong colours"; around five hundred sprites were stored this way, and this was noted as a difficulty in the Amiga port's development.
Jaleco supplied Random Access with the background graphics for Rod Land stored as 16x16 pixel squares, although "jumbled up and in the wrong colours"; around five hundred sprites were stored this way, and this was noted as a difficulty in the Amiga port's development.
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