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It’s Poop!
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/23/2017
In 1992, Media Rings published “Toilet Kids” (“TK”) in Japan, a game which… failed to take the world by storm. Japanese gamers have a cultural phenomenon known as “kuso-ge” which literally means “shit game.” While “TK” doesn’t typically appear on canonical lists of kuso-ge, it certainly fits the paradigm – literally; it’s a SHMUP about poop.
Presentation
“TK,” as a TurboGrafx-16 game, looks the way one would expect. Compared side-by-side with an 8-bit NES game, it looks quite fantastic, with a nice color pallet and a decent pixel count. Compared side-by-side with a 16-bit SNES game, it looks rather flat and lacking in both layers and fine details. Regardless of its platform’s technical restrictions, the actual design that went into making the …
