gunpeiyokoifan wrote:Well, it said it was a race game, right? maybe it’s a joke on “rat race”.
As for “tat”, I know that’s British slang for “rubbish, junk” but I doubt that’s what they were referring to.
Yes, it does say it’s a race game. A play on ‘Rat Race’ would make sense..Perhaps you controlled rats that ran through mazes to see who could find the cheese fastest =P
Interesting…”Strange Animal School” is listed as a 3d Shooting game(??), Just like Out of the Deathmount above it
speedyink wrote:
Wangan Sensen Red City says it’s a shooting game in these scans, but on here it says it’s a war simulation. Judging from the other games this publisher was making probably an airplane dogfight game.
Actually looking closer it doesn’t list it as a dogfighting game like the other game on the list. It’s some type of shooting game anyway
Benjamin Stevens wrote:
DogP wrote:
Looking at the Japanese text on the PVB page, it looks like there was a typo of タ (ta), rather than ラ (ra) (which is clearly correct in this scan).
I went through all of my Famitsu Magazines a short while ago and thoroughly checked all of the titles listed on the Release Schedule pages, and I remember seeing that all of the spellings listed on Planet Virtual Boy were correct and that there were no Virtual Boy games listed in the 1995 Famitsu Magazines that did not appear at all on Planet Virtual Boy. Thus, I am rather confident that “Signal Tatto” appeared on those Release Schedule pages as シグナル・タット, which means that シグナル・ラット must have been an earlier spelling that later got altered into シグナル・タット. I can check my magazines again to be sure if I remember to do so when I get home from work this evening.
Well, I went through and even scanned all of the Release Schedule pages of my 1995 Famitsu Magazines, and it does, indeed, appear that “Signal Tatto” is supposed to be “Signal Rat.”
“Signal Rat” first made its Famitsu Magazine appearance in Issue # 349 (August 18 & 25, 1995 Issue), where it appeared on the Release Schedule page as:
シグナル ラット
It also appeared this way in Issues 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 359, and 360/361. After Issue # 360/361 (November 10 & 17, 1995 Issue), it no longer appeared on the Release Schedule pages, so J-Wing must have notified Famitsu Magazine at that time that the game was definitively canceled. Thus, the game never appeared on any of the Release Schedule pages as シグナル・タット = Signal Tatto.
