Chack'n Pop

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Chack'n Pop
System(s): SG-1000
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sega R&D 2
Licensor: Taito
Original system(s): Arcade boards
Developer(s) of original games: Taito
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1-2 (alternating)
Release Date RRP Code JP 1985-09 ¥4,3004,300 C-52 TW 198x
Non-Sega versions Arcade Famicom FM-7 MSX PC-6001 mkII PC-8801 X1

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Chack'n Pop (チャックン ポップ) is an arcade game developed by Taito which was subsequently ported to the SG-1000 in 1985. It follows a yellow creature named Chack'n who must traverse across several mazes blowing up monsters.

Though Chack'n Pop was not a particularly successful game for Taito, it would go on to inspire the success of Bubble Bobble, which shares many of the same characters and devotes a stage to Chack'n Pop. Chack'n has also cameoed in numerous Taito games since, including Bubble Bobble, Fairyland Story, Parasol Stars, Puzzle Bobble (and sequels), Bubble Symphony, Bubble Memories and Arkanoid DS.

Versions

The SG-1000 version was notably the first Sega My Card game (by catalog number) to advertise compatibility with the Sega Mark III, which had been released within the same year.

Curiously this SG-1000 version uses the katakana script for writing Chack'n Pop (チャックン ポップ) as opposed to the hiragana script used in almost every other version (ちゃっくんぽっぷ). And it includes extra cutscenes and a training level not seen in the arcade version.

Production credits

• Katsuhiro Hasegawa

Source:

Uncredited

Physical scans

SG-1000, JP
Cover
Card Manual

SG-1000, TW

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 d37bda49 MD5 286ba24b335a1600dfc611a0a9fe7875 SHA-1 08b5c1135f9678465ece6a886c948ce091637372	32kB		Cartridge (JP)
?	CRC32 d81a72ce MD5 64c1a50fb9f0293d7143d53579e2e62f SHA-1 75855a3148a57b102c15a436e7e4ffd1ab4808c3	32kB		Cartridge (TW)

References

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