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The arcade version took 8th place for the Grand Prize in the game magazine Gamest's feature "The 2nd Gamest Grand Prize" (fiscal 1988).
In the game magazine Gamest's feature "The 2nd Gamest Grand Prize" (fiscal 1988), it took 8th place for the Grand Prize, 9th place for the Best Ending Award, 8th place for the Best Graphics Award, 10th place for the Best VGM Award, the Editorial Department Special Award, and in the Best Character Award "Syvalion" took 9th place.
In the Gamest Mook The Best Game, based on a popularity vote of Gamest readers held in 1991 and covering all arcade games in operation up to then, it took 31st place.
Game magazinesIn the "Cross Review" of Famitsu it received 7, 4, 7 and 5 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, 20.05 out of 30.
This score placed it 186th among all Super Famicom titles (323 titles in total, as of 1993).
Bubble Bobble - The X68000 version released in 1990 includes a high-difficulty mode called Saibaburun that parodies this game.
In 2020, Syvalion was made available on Anstream Arcade, followed by a later reissue on the Taito Egret II Mini dedicated console, which was released in 2022 and features a dedicated trackball controller.
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