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Retro Royalty Returns: Polymega Launches Pre-Orders for Four Classic Toaplan Discs

Alcon ( slap fight ) - arcade pcb - taito / toaplan - 1986

Developer: Toaplan

Publisher: Taito

Hardware: Enma Daio Hardware

Dump Status: Dumped

Enma Daio was the last game from Toaplan before they went bankrupt, and it’s a unique game in that it’s a lie detector in the form of a quiz game!!

The player is told at the very start of a credit to place their left hand on this ball that has a polygraph sensor a finger slides into to detect the player’s heartbeat. After this is done, the player selects their gender, and then a category of questions.

The game works by asking you several yes/no questions, and after each answer it shows your heartbeat in the form of a seismogram. If your heartbeat increases quickly after an answer, the game considers you a liar!

After a short recording of your heart, the deity Enma Daio will appear, and will judge you based on if the game considers you a liar or not. He’ll be happy if you answered honestly, and very angry if you lied.

The game has a very large amount of voicelines (every single question is voiced!!), and it all amounts up to 25MB of ADPCM voice sample data!!!

The game was Toaplan’s most expensive project, as former composer Tatsuya Uemura stated that it “cost a lot of money” in a 2009 interview.

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