King Kong 2: Yomigaeru Densetsu
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is a 1986 MSX
role-playing game
by Konami
. It was released only in Japan
and based on the movie of the same year, King Kong Lives
(King Kong 2 being the film's title in Japan). While the Famicom King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch
has players playing as King Kong, Yomigaeru Densetsu has players playing as Mitchell.
The game was unofficially re-released in English by the Korean Zemina
.
MSX
MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation...
role-playing game
Role-playing game (video games)
Role-playing video games are a video game genre with origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, using much of the same terminology, settings and game mechanics. The player in RPGs controls one character, or several adventuring party members, fulfilling one or many quests...
by Konami
Konami
is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...
. It was released only in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
and based on the movie of the same year, King Kong Lives
King Kong Lives
King Kong Lives is a 1986 American monster movie produced by DEG Studios. Directed by John Guillermin and featuring special effects by Carlo Rambaldi, the film starred Linda Hamilton and Brian Kerwin. The film was a belated sequel to King Kong...
(King Kong 2 being the film's title in Japan). While the Famicom King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch
King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch
is a 1986 Family Computer action adventure game by Konami. It was released only in Japan and based on the movie of the same year, King Kong Lives .-Storyline:...
has players playing as King Kong, Yomigaeru Densetsu has players playing as Mitchell.
The game was unofficially re-released in English by the Korean Zemina
Zemina
Zemina was a South Korean software maker brand of Saehan Trading founded in 1981. They primarily made games for the Daewoo Zemmix, but because it was an MSX computer made to look and be played like a game console, they work on other MSX computers as well...
.