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In the feature "The 4th Gamest Awards" (for 1990) in the game magazine Gamest, it took No. 7 in the grand prize category, No. 4 for the Best Action Award and No. 42 among the hit games of the year.
Game magazinesIn the "Cross Review" of Famitsu it received 6, 4, 7 and 6 for a total of 23 out of 40, and in the "Game Report Card" based on reader voting in Family Computer Magazine it was rated as follows, 20.68 out of 30.
This score placed it 149th among all Super Famicom titles (323 titles in total, as of 1993).
In Japan it was ported to the X68000, the Super Famicom and the FM TOWNS, and the Super Famicom version was released outside Japan under the title On the Ball.
Perhaps because this was unpopular, in the budget versions released later, TAITO BEST (2006-7-6) and Eternal Hits (2007-6-28), the secret specification was abolished and the specification was changed so that all titles could be played from the start.
In the Gamest Mook The Best Game 2 (1998) it was selected as "a rather unusual, dense game", and the book praised it as "well made down to the details", citing points such as the way the ball bounces differing according to the material of the wall, and pointed out that being able to choose the ball used by means of a hidden command was also one of the 1 factors that raised its popularity.
In Japan, Game Machine listed Cameltry on their May 15, 1990 issue as being the eleventh most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
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