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The sales of this game title and other titles from Square at this time were not enough for Square to stay in business, and the company's fortunes only turned around with the release of the first Final Fantasy.
is a Japan-only follow-up to the game released on December 7, 1987, developed by the same team who did the original, but as a regular cart instead of for the Disk System.
JJ was one of the few games to utilize the Famicom 3D System, and was Square's last work before the inception of the popular Final Fantasy franchise.
Outside Japan it was released under the title The 3-D Battles of WorldRunner.
The 3-D Battles of WorldRunner (shortened to 3-D WorldRunner on the North American box art), originally released in Japan as , is a 1987 third-person rail shooter platform video game developed and published by Square for the Family Computer Disk System.
In the "Cross Review" of the game magazine Famitsu it scored a total of 22 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine, the rating is as follows, at 16.08 out of 25.
In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by the game magazine Family Computer Magazine, the rating is as follows, at 16.02 out of 30.
In a 1999 interview with NextGeneration magazine, Sakaguchi admitted that he "liked Space Harrier", but said that his main reason for the development of the game was that Square owner Masafumi Miyamoto wanted to demonstrate Nasir Gebelli's 3D programming techniques for which he had been hired.
Vito Gesualdi of Destructoid named it among the "five most notorious videogame ripoffs of all time" in 2013.
At the time of release, Cashbox magazine praised the game's visual effects and the variety of enemies and obstacles.
Retro Gamer criticized for being a seeming ripoff of Sega's Space Harrier, noting that even the bosses of both games look similar.
The 3-D Battles of WorldRunner (shortened to 3-D WorldRunner on the North American box art), originally released in Japan as , is a 1987 third-person rail shooter platform video game developed and published by Square for the Family Computer Disk System.
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