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List Of Choro Q Video Games
This is a list of video games based on the Choro Q (also known as Penny Racers in English-speaking markets) line of toy cars produced by Japanese toy company Takara was a Japanese toy company founded in 1955. In March 2006, the company merged with Tomy, Tomy Company, Ltd. to form Tomy, Takara Tomy. The Takara motto was("playing is culture"). The company focused on traditional toys and board games. They cr ... (later Takara Tomy). Some of these games have been localised for Western release under many different names, including ''Gadget Racers'', ''Penny Racers'' and ''Road Trip''. Most of these are auto racing games with extensive opportunities for customization, often including role-playing video game-style elements such as towns and side-quests. Most of these games were developed by external companies like Tamsoft and Barnhouse Effect, although they are usually credited to Takara since the developers' name rarely appears outside of the ending credits. Only two games in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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is a line of Japanese 3–4 cm pullback motor, pullback car toys produced by Takara Tomy (formerly Takara). Known in North America as Penny Racers, they were introduced in late 1978 and have seen multiple revisions and successors since. The name comes from the Japanese term ''choro-choro'', meaning "dash around", as well as an abbreviation of the Japanese Loanword, borrowing from "cute" (''kyūto'') to connote their petite size. Takara created the Choro-Q line after noticing the popularity of miniature car toys in Japan. Choro-Qs are stylized after real-world automobiles, with real rubber wheels and a pullback motor that makes them move. Each car has a coin slot at the back, where inserting a penny will make it perform a wheelie when the car is released. A wide variety of car models was chosen to make the Choro-Q series appeal to everybody, ranging from sports cars to formula racers. Features Most Choro-Q feature real rubber tires (usually with larger ones on the rear) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kogado Studio
is a Japanese company which currently deals in graphic design and video game development. The company was founded in 1916 as and originally handled design and printing. In the late 1960s Kogado entered the toy market and handled the Japanese localization of board games from Milton Bradley before creating original board games for Takara. The company later entered video game development in the 1980s. Kogado has released adventure, strategy, and bishōjo games for the MSX, MSX2, PlayStation 2 and PC, including such titles as ''Symphonic Rain'', '' Gadget Trial'', '' Little Witch Parfait'', '' Tristia of the Deep-Blue Sea'' (which has been made an original video animation , abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV (original animation video), are Japanese animated films and special episodes of a series made specially for release in home video formats without prior showings on television or in theaters, though the ...), and '' Power Dolls''. The studio has a number of teams wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlayStation 2
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Sega
is a Japanese video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in Tokyo. It produces several List of best-selling video game franchises, multi-million-selling game franchises for arcade game, arcades and video game console, consoles, including ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', ''Angry Birds'', ''Phantasy Star'', ''Puyo Puyo'', ''Super Monkey Ball'', ''Total War (video game series), Total War'', ''Virtua Fighter'', ''Megami Tensei'', ''Sakura Wars'', ''Persona (series), Persona'', ''The House of the Dead'' and ''Yakuza (franchise), Yakuza''. From 1983 until 2001, Sega also developed List of Sega video game consoles, its own consoles. Sega was founded by Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart in Hawaii as on June 3, 1960. Shortly after, it acquired the assets of its predecessor, Service Games of Japan. In 1965, it became known as Sega Enterprises, Ltd., after acquiring Rosen Enterprises, an importer of Arcade game, coin-operated games. Sega developed its first coin-op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcade Game
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Choro Q Wonderful!
is a 1999 role-playing and racing video game for the PlayStation, developed by E-game and published by Takara. It is the successor to the Tamsoft-developed ''Choro Q 3'' and hence the third sequel to ''Penny Racers'' (1996); the "''Wonderful''" name in its title, in Japanese pronunciation, is a pun on " four". An English-language fan translation was released in 2023. Gameplay ''Choro Q Wonderful!'' was the first ''Choro Q'' video game to incorporate plot-based progression with role-playing elements. Reception and legacy ''Famitsu'' scored the game 26 out of 40. In an import review, ''PLAY UK'' magazine scored it 66% calling it "not wonderful, just plain dull...". In 2002, E-game and Takara produced '' Road Trip Adventure'' on the PlayStation 2 The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on 4 March 2000, in North America on 26 October, in Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Boy Color
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Sony Computer Entertainment
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