Toy Shop Boys

Toy Shop Boys^[a] is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up video game released in 1990 for the NEC PC Engine by Victor.^[1]

Toy Shop Boys
Developer(s)	Mutech
Publisher(s)	Victor Musical Industries
Director(s)	Yoshinao Shimada
Producer(s)	Harunobu Komori
Designer(s)	Yoshinao Shimada
Programmer(s)	Ken Hasegawa Takashi Oka
Artist(s)	Kazuya Matsuzawa Kumiko Watanabe Yasuhiro Kanō Yojiro Hirashita
Writer(s)	Hiroyuki Sakai
Platform(s)	PC Engine
Release	JP: December 14, 1990
Genre(s)	Vertically scrolling shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

Gameplay screenshot

Toy Shop Boys is a vertical-scrolling shooter game.

Development and release

Toy Shop Boys was published by Victor Musical Industries.

Reception

Review scores

Publication	Score
Computer and Video Games	70%[2]
Famitsu	24/40[3]
Génération 4	73%[4]
Joystick	80%[5]
Marukatsu PC Engine	23/40[6]
Player One	76%[7]
Tilt	10/20[8]
Micro News	3/5[9]
Play Time	91%[10]

Reception

Toy Shop Boys received average reviews.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} The Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine ranked the game fifteenth in popularity in its April 1991 issue.^[11]

Notes

1. Japanese: トイショップ ボーイズ, Hepburn: Toi Shoppu Bōizu

References

1. Matsuyama, Benī (January 1991). "Super Soft Hot Information: PC Engine 新作ソフト Data Base". Micom BASIC Magazine [ja] (in Japanese). No. 103. The Dempa Shimbunsha Corporation [ja]. pp. 246–247.
2. "Bytesize: PC Engine". Computer and Video Games. No. 112. EMAP. March 1991. p. 77.
3. "新作ゲームクロスレビュー PART 2: トイショップボーイズ". Famitsu (in Japanese). No. 117. ASCII Corporation. December 21, 1990. p. 37.
4. Querleux, Philippe (February 1991). "Tests CoregrafX: Toy Shop Boys". Génération 4 [fr] (in French). No. 30. Pressimage. p. 78.
5. Demoly, Jean-Marc (February 1991). "Consoles News: Toy Shop Boys". Joystick (in French). No. 13. Sipress. p. 114.
6. "新作ソフトお毒味チャート: トイショップボーイズ". Marukatsu PC Engine [ja] (in Japanese). Vol. 3, no. 2. Kadokawa Shoten. February 1991. p. 126.
7. Scamps, Olivier (February 1991). "Tests de Jeux: Toy Shop Boys". Player One [fr] (in French). No. 6. Média Système Édition [fr]. p. 48.
8. Huyghues-Lacour, Alain (March 1991). "Rolling Softs: Exhaustilt!". Tilt (in French). No. 88. Editions Mondiales S.A. [fr]. pp. 80–81.
9. Utsumiya, Ho (February 1991). "Tops & Softs Consoles: Toy Shop Boys". Micro News [fr] (in French). No. 44. Publications Georges Ventillard [fr]. p. 76.
10. Kneffel, Dieter (June 1991). "Konsolen-Spiele: Toy Shop Boys". Play Time [de] (in German). No. 2. Computec. pp. 120–121.
11. Matsuyama, Benī (April 1991). "Super Soft Hot Information: PC Engine 今月の人気ソフト・ランキング". Micom BASIC Magazine [ja] (in Japanese). No. 106. The Dempa Shimbunsha Corporation [ja]. pp. 259–261.

External links

• 1990s portal
• Japan portal
• Video games portal

• Toy Shop Boys at GameFAQs
• Toy Shop Boys at MobyGames